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History in towns: Deadwood, South Dakota.
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 it was Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) who was inadvertently responsible for the creation of Deadwood. In the summer of 1874, he led ten companies of cavalry and two of infantry into the Black Hills, then part of the Great Sioux Reservation, to find a site for a military post. When his men discovered gold in the creeks that course through the hills, Custer reported to the adjutant general of the Dakota Territory that "gold was obtained in numerous localities." (1)
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