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Deadwood was a lawless, rowdy camp. According to several historians, including John Ames in "The Real Deadwood" and Kenneth C. Kellar in "Seth Bullock: Frontier Marshal Deadwood", days after Bullock and Star's arrival, Wild Bill Hickok was murdered by Jack McCall. McCall shot Hickok in the back of the head while he sat playing poker.
A decade later, in Deadwood: The Movie, he is still running the #10 Saloon. His business is thriving due to the increased population of Deadwood. The Nuttall character is based on a real-life person named William "Billy" Nuttall, co-owner of the real-life #10 Saloon in the Deadwood camp. [3]
The Reverend Henry Weston Smith (January 10, 1827 – August 20, 1876) was an American preacher and early resident of Deadwood, South Dakota. [2]Unlike most of the residents of the time, he was not interested in material riches; instead, he was the first preacher, of any denomination, in the Black Hills Gold Rush camps.
Earp speculated in San Diego's booming real estate market, [159] and he bought four saloons and gambling halls between 1887 and around 1896, all in the "respectable" part of town. [159] [160] [161] They offered 21 games, including faro, blackjack, poker, keno, pedro, and monte. [159] At the height of the boom, he made up to $1,000 a night in ...
By 1877, about 12,000 people settled in Deadwood, [11] while other sources put the peak number even at 25,000 in 1876. [10] In early 1876, frontiersman Charlie Utter and his brother Steve led to Deadwood a wagon train containing what they believed were needed commodities, to bolster business. The town's numerous gamblers and prostitutes staffed ...
Utter was back in Deadwood by the fall of the year. He opened another dance hall and also managed one of Deadwood's theaters. [5] On September 26, 1879, a fire devastated Deadwood, destroying more than three hundred buildings (including Charlie's dance hall and the theater he managed) and consuming the belongings of many inhabitants.
In the HBO series Deadwood (2004–2006), Wild Bill is played by Keith Carradine. Hickok is a playable character in the 2018 board game Deadwood 1876 by Façade Games. [86] In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Scruggs refuses to play the dead man's hand upon entering a game of poker. [87]
Many Deadwood miners and businessmen relocated to Leadville, Colorado, in January 1879 to follow the promise of the new rush and the next big strike. Jack Langrishe and Company would once again take the stage with fellow Deadwood manager Billy Nuttall's Bella Union Theatre Company who opened the new Leadville Grand Central Theatre. [19]