Deadwood, S.D. — Perhaps you’ve been watching “Deadwood,” the HBO series. Well, this town of 1,300 in the Black Hills is the genuine thing, where the real Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane hung out.

In the fall of 1875, gold was discovered in Deadwood Gulch, Dakota Territory. By 1876, about 10,000 people had turned their camp into an instant city — one gritty enough to inspire an HBO series.

Deadwood Season 1 is a Western television series set in the gold-mining camp of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876. The season follows the arrival of Seth Bullock, a former lawman who opens a hardware ...

Deadwood's Al Swearengen may not be as popular to the masses as other western antiheroes, but he's still the best.

The wild and woolly days of Deadwood's golden past not only come to life in the HBO series named for the place, but have kindled intense interest in this historic town that once was home to Wild Bill ...

When it comes to saloons, high-stakes card games and the inevitable shootouts, history is best experienced firsthand in this South Dakota town. By Richard Rubin You will be shocked — shocked — to find ...

As the United States Army looked to save Deadwood from Indian attack in 1876, it was instead Deadwood that ended up saving the Army. The story of the 1876 Slim Buttes Battle and subsequent “starvation ...

DEADWOOD, S.D. — The trail to Seth Bullock’s final resting place is steep. Not Rocky Mountain steep, but Black Hills steep, with dark ponderosa pines towering all around. After six hours in the car, ...

Basking in its new celebrity — and with the series (filmed in Santa Clarita) renewed for 2005 — Deadwood is pumping up efforts to lure visitors, most recently by erecting a $150,000 block of Old West ...