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    Deadwood (Lakota: Owáyasuta;[failed verification] "To approve or confirm things") is a city that serves as county seat of Lawrence County, South Dakota...
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  • set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area's annexation by the Dakota Territory, and charts Deadwood's growth from camp to...
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    Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable...
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    was the original "Deadwood Dick" who, at the age of 17 (c. 1879) went west from Springfield, Illinois, to Deadwood, South Dakota, where he made his fortune...
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    Chinatown was a historic ethnic enclave in Deadwood, located in Lawrence County in the U.S. state of South Dakota. It became the largest Chinatown of any...
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  • British Columbia Deadwood, California (disambiguation), several communities Deadwood, Oregon Deadwood, South Dakota Deadwood, Texas Deadwood Draw, on the...
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    near Deadwood, South Dakota which was operated by the artist himself, until it too closed after financial difficulties. Some of the South Dakota busts...
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    Sol Star (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    businessman and politician notable as an early resident of the town of Deadwood, South Dakota. Star was born in Bavaria, Germany, to Jewish parents. When he was...
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  • Dora DuFran (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    the leading and most successful madams in the Old West days of Deadwood, South Dakota. DuFran was born in Liverpool, England and emigrated to the United...
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    A. W. Merrick (category People from Dakota Territory)
    was an American journalist who published the first newspaper in Deadwood, South Dakota, the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer, along with W. A. Laughlin. The...
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    Henry Weston Smith (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    August 20, 1876) was an American preacher and early resident of Deadwood, South Dakota. Unlike most of the residents of the time, he was not interested...
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    Seth Bullock (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    politician, sheriff, and U.S. Marshal. He was a prominent citizen in Deadwood, South Dakota, where he lived from 1876 until his death, operating a hardware...
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    Charlie Utter (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    from Georgetown, Colorado, to the burgeoning town of Deadwood in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory, where the recent discovery of gold had sparked...
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  • Association. Retrieved July 4, 2023. "South Dakota's Legislators Organize Without Friction". The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times. January 3, 1917. p. 1....
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    Samuel Fields (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    active participant in the African-American community of Deadwood, South Dakota. Fields moved to Deadwood around 1876 to seek his fortune. He claimed to have...
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    Al Swearengen (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    entertainment entrepreneur who ran the Gem Theater, a notorious brothel, in Deadwood, South Dakota, for 22 years during the late 19th century. Swearengen (sometimes...
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    Grabill had studios in Buena Vista, Colorado, Sturgis, Deadwood, Lead City and Hot Springs, South Dakota and Chicago, Illinois. He was the official photographer...
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    Arizona Columbia, California Coulson, Montana Cripple Creek, Colorado Deadwood, South Dakota Dodge City, Kansas El Paso, Texas Fort Sill, Oklahoma Guthrie, Oklahoma...
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    Martha Bullock (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    the wife of Seth Bullock, one of the leading citizens in early Deadwood, South Dakota. She and Bullock were married in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1874....
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    Bullock Hotel (category Buildings and structures in Deadwood, South Dakota)
    of Wall Street and Main Street in Deadwood, South Dakota. It was built by Seth Bullock, an early sheriff of Deadwood, and his business partner Sol Star...
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    Gem Theater (category Buildings and structures in Deadwood, South Dakota)
    The Gem Theater was a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota, owned by Al Swearengen. Swearengen opened the Gem Variety Theater on April 7, 1877, at the corners...
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    Nuttal & Mann's (category Buildings and structures in Deadwood, South Dakota)
    Nuttal & Mann's was a saloon located in Deadwood, southern Dakota Territory, North America. It was noted for being the death-place of James Butler "Wild...
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    photographed the Wild West. He ran a studio in Deadwood, South Dakota. He photographed the Black Hills area, Deadwood, Crow Indians, farmers, miners, railroads...
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  • The Deadwood Metropolitans were a minor league baseball team based in Deadwood, South Dakota. In 1891 and 1892, the Metropolitans played as members of...
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    Calamity Jane (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    Valentine McGillycuddy. In 1876, Calamity Jane settled in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. There she became friends with Dora DuFran,...
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  • Carole Hillard (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    first woman to serve as Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota. Hillard was born in Deadwood, South Dakota, August 14, 1936, to Edward Rypkema and Vernell...
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  • E. B. Farnum (category People from Deadwood, South Dakota)
    (November 10, 1826 – after 1900) was one of the first residents of Deadwood (then in the Dakota Territory) who was not a miner or prospector; he was the owner...
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    Granville G. Bennett (category South Dakota state court judges)
    trial of Jack McCall for the Aug. 2,1876 murder of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. This trial was held in Yankton, the then headquarters of...
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    Garrett, Spearfish, South Dakota 1995 Marvin Garrett, Belle Fourche, South Dakota 1994 Marvin Garrett, Belle Fourche, South Dakota 1993 Deb Greenough,...
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    Hickok from behind as he played poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, on August 2, 1876. McCall was executed for the murder on...
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