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Extract from the Deadwood Travel Guides:
One of the West's wildest Gold Rush towns,
DEADWOOD
, in a deep gulch high in the hills 42 miles northwest of Rapid City, has the rare accolade of being a National Historic Landmark in its entirety. Within a year of the discovery of
gold
here in 1876, six thousand gold-diggers had swarmed in to stake their claims; con artists, outlaws and other dubious frontier types were not far behind. Among them were James Butler, aka
Wild Bill Hickok
- sometime spy, scout, bullwhacker, stagecoach driver, sheriff and gambler, who spent only a few weeks in Deadwood prior to his murder by a young drifter named Jack...
read the whole Deadwood Travel Guides...
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