Deadwood, South Dakota's Cast of Real Historic Characters

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Black Hills Cast of Characters & Tales

There just may be no other place in the American West that is so filled with legendary historic figures and Old West tales than the Black Hills of South Dakota. From the legends of the Badlands, to Indian battles, outlaws, vigilantes, and painted ladies, Deadwood and the surrounding area provides it all!

Al Swearengen & the Notorious Gem Theater

Calamity Jane - Wild Woman of the West

Charlie Utter, Bill Hickok's Best Pard

Con Stapleton - Deadwood Marshal

George Hearst - Father of a Mining and Publishing Empire

Jack Langrishe - Entertaining the Old Wild West

Jack McCall - Cowardly Killer of Wild Bill Hickok

Lucretia "Aunt Lou" Marchbanks - The Greatest Cook in the Black Hills

Martha Bullock - A Pillar of Deadwood Society

Nat Love, aka: "Deadwood Dick" - The Greatest Black Cowboy in the Old West

The Painted Ladies of Deadwood Gulch

Samuel Fields - The Shakespearian Orator of Deadwood

Seth Bullock - Finest Type of Frontiersman

Wild Bill Hickok & the Deadman's Hand

Wyatt Earp - Frontier Lawman

Also See:

Deadwood - Rough & Tumble Mining Camp

Deadwood, South Dakota Timeline

The Haunted Bullock Hotel

HBO's Deadwood - Facts & Fiction

Jack Langrishe, courtesy Denver Public Library.

Wild Bill Hickok

This image available for photographic prints and downloads HERE!

Calamity Jane, 1895

This image available for photographic prints and downloads HERE!

Deadwood, South Dakota from the south, 1876, photo

courtesy Library of Congress.

This image available for photographic prints and downloads HERE!

From the Rocky Mountain General Store

Old West Wanted Posters and Wild West Prints - From outlaws wanted by the authorities, such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and the Wild Bunch, to other Old West advertising, such as Pony Express, Stagecoach Rules, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and more. Prints measure 11"x17" are are produced on glossy, 12 point paper. See the entire collection HERE! Just $6.99.

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