Deadwood, South Dakota 1877/78

Deadwood, South Dakota # 1877/78 Deadwood, 30 miles northwest of Rapid City, S.D., sprang up in That year the population grew to 6,000 in Deadwood and 15,000 1875 after prospectors found gold in Deadwood Gulch, described along the entire gulch. by one miner as “three miles long and 50 feet wide.” In April 1876, A man named Rettke took this photo in either 1877 or 1878, before planners staked out the perimeters of a city. Wild Bill Hickok a major fire in 1879 destroyed most of the business district. Wooden was drawn to Deadwood only weeks before he was killed on structures have largely replaced the tents of 1876. To the northeast August 2, 1876, while playing cards in Nuttal and Mann’s Saloon (off the lower left edge of the photo) lie Deadwood’s Badlands, No. 10 (one of 67 saloons in town). Placer mining yielded $2 million site of many saloons, brothels and the Chinatown district. Today, in gold in 1876 but soon went into decline and was dwarfed by Deadwood’s population numbers around 1,400, but the town draws hard-rock mining, which produced $45,000 in gold weekly in 1877. thousands of history-minded or gambling-minded tourists every year. Photograph courtesy of Adams Museum, Deadwood; thanks to Curator Arlette Hansen

Senate Saloon Bullock said McCall was captured in front of it

Deadwood Theatre Wild Bill’s Hickok’s Camp Site Present-Day Grave Hickok’s on Mount Moriah; Calamity First Grave Jane is buried beside him in Ingleside, behind this hill Hermann and Treber Liquor Star & Bullock Sherman Wholesalers Hardware Street Sol Star and Seth Bullock

Nuttal & Mann’s Gem Theatre Cabin Saloon No. 10 owned by Al Swearengen McCall may have where Jack McCall shot Wild Bill been imprisoned here General before his trial Custer Hotel

Main Green Street Front Theatre

Bank McCallʼs attorney and the Black Hills Daily Times kept offices here

Black Hills Pioneer Office Adams Brothers Montana Livery base of Charley Utterʼs Store Pony Express Bella Union site of McCallʼs trial