We’ve got more life in Deadwood City than in all of Illinois. According to Calamity Jane in her namesake musical. She’s buried in Deadwood near Wild Bill. Deadwood, SD has more casinos than Vegas. Or maybe it just seems that way.
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- Beautiful downtown Deadwood.
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- Beautiful downtown Deadwood.
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- Tourists.
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- More tourists.
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- Less life in Deadwood’s cemetery. Willd Bill Hickok, assassinated in Deadwood.
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- Her dyding request: “Bury me next to Wild Bill.”
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- Deadwood, viewed from the cemetery.
Calamity Jane was quite the character. According to Wikipedia, Occupation: army scout, explorer, performer, dance-hall girl, prostitute, frontier woman. “It is known that she had no formal education and was an itinerant alcoholic.”