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Article: History in towns: Deadwood, South Dakota.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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The town of Deadwood is cradled in a narrow gulch between pine-covered bluffs in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Main Street (see Pl. III), the principal commercial thoroughfare, snakes down the ravine cut by the Whitewood and Deadwood creeks. Overlooking it are the residential streets that were carved from the precipitous slopes. Forest Hill on the west and Ingleside on the east. Crowning the eastern slope is Mount Moriah Cemetery where James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill Hickok (Pl. I), and Martha Jane Cannary Burke, whose sobriquet is Calamity Jane (Fig. 1), are buried (see Pl. II).
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Wild Bill is the local hero, but ...