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The Black Hills Pioneer (first published as the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer [1]) is a daily newspaper published in Spearfish, South Dakota.Founded by A. W. Merrick and W. A. Laughlin, it was the first newspaper in Deadwood, located in what was then Dakota Territory.
On December 1st, 1887,the name Bhick Hills Pioneer, was changed to Dead woodPioneer. On May 15th, 1897, the Deadwood Daily Pioneer andthe Deadwood Daily Times were merged into one dailypaper, under the proprietorship of the Pioneer-Times Pub-lishing Company, and the editorial and business manage-ment of Porter Warner, and W. H. Bonham ...
A fictionalized version of the saloon appeared in the HBO television series Deadwood (2004-2006), where the owner was the character Cy Tolliver.In Deadwood: The Movie (2019), which is set ten years after the third and final season of the television series, Tolliver has since died, and the saloon is now owned and run by its former madam Joanie Stubbs.
Derek Duncan, Pioneer The senior second baseman hit .333 with one triple, three doubles, 27 RBIs and 24 runs scored. "Duncan, he came on last year, was a bit of a surprise," Hardy said.
Baseball was a popular sport in the mining towns of the era. The first "Black Hills Base Ball League" was formed on August 11, 1885. The league was formed to organize existing town teams and combat violence and gambling.
Albert Walter Merrick (December 24, 1840 – February 26, 1902) was an American journalist who published the first newspaper in Deadwood, South Dakota, the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer, along with W. A. Laughlin. The newspaper continues to be published today, but has moved its offices to Spearfish, South Dakota.
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Prior to opening a business in Deadwood, Swearengen operated a dance house in Custer, South Dakota.As stated in the 1882 New Year Edition of the Black Hills Pioneer, which described the early history of Custer, "Al Swearengen was running a dance house of 30X150 feet in dimensions and day and night a man had to push and crowd to get into it."