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In it's day, Deadwood was a wide-open town on a par with Dodge City and Tombstone, filled with gold miners, gamblers, easy ladies, and outlaws. It is probably most famous as the town in which Wild Bill Hickok met his end, holding the infamous "dead man's hand" of aces and eights at the time. You can still see the spot where it happened in Old Style Saloon #10, and visit Wild Bill's grave (and Calamity Jane's) in the boot hill at Mount Moriah Cemetery -- but that's just the beginning of things to do in Deadwood. You can pan for gold at the Broken Boot Mine, tour a mining millionaire's 1892 mansion, learn the history of the Bison in North America … or gamble away the night in one of the dozens of gaming parlors and saloons that still line the Deadwood Gulch in this "Las Vegas of the High Plains." |
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