Deadwood City in Whitewood Gulch 1876, Copyright © photographer D. S. Mitchell's Steroscopic Views of the Black Hills Gold Regions and the Cheyenne Route to the New Eldorado, NYPL Digital Gallery, The New York Public Library
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View of a cabin in Deadwood Gulch 1876, photographer unknown, Copyright ©, NYPL Digital Gallery, The New York Public Library
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Old Deadwood coach at the office, 1880, Northwestern Express, Stage and Transportation Co., Deadwood, South Dakota, Copyright © "The Pageant of America" Collection v.4 - The March of commerce, NYPL Digital Gallery, The New York Public Library
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Bloom Furnishings Has Largest Sign
Black Hills Daily Times July 10, 1877
Deadwood 1877, Lee Street merchant signs, Lee Street Blacksmith James Langan Colorado Blacksmith May 19, 1877, F. C. Ayres Paint Shop November 2, 1877, Ruggles & Swazie American House sold & changed name to E. Welch's Hotel July 24, 1877, Black Hills Telegraph Company moved to Welch's Hotel October 18, 1877, Tom Cornforth's Fruits & Produce November 1877, H. J. Brendlinger Cash Tobacco & Cigar Store opened July 2, 1877, J. Siegrist & D. Robinson Occidental Chop House & Sample Room April 13, 1877 sold to Charles Hillery & Danbar Confectionary & Lunchroom November 1877, Lodging, Law Office, Sol Bloom's Furnishing Goods Hat Boot & Shoe House corner of Lee & Main Street, Sol Bloom hung his sign in front of his business July 10, 1877 and advertised his hat emporium & clothing business as opposite corner of Custer House, Lee Street November 16, 1877. Other Lee Street merchants not signed, Chas Borchers Casino Saloon June 22, 1877, Bullock & Star buy lot corner lot Lee & Sherman St April 21, 1877, Kemp & Asche Bonanza Saloon June 21, 1877, Benjamin Edington Bon Ton Restaurant & Saloon September 15, 1877, R. H. Geary & Company Denver Meat Market April 18, 1877, Higbie & Russell Tobacco May 31, 1877, William George Hollins Attorney Lee & Main April 9, 1877, Fishel Key West Cigars July 6, 1877, Hughes & McNary Cigars October 29, 1877, May's Hall September 27, 1877, E. J. Bennett, Attorney & Counselor at Law Lee Street, William T. Lyons & Moor Assays April 9, 1877, William McHugh Grocery July 7, 1877, J. D. McIntyre Surveyor & Mining Engineer May 18, 1877, D. S. Miller & Company Grocery April 28, 1877, H.B. Montgomery Oyster Bay Restaurant May 26, 1877, Harry Lovell Pretty Bijou Saloon June 16, 1877, Henry C. Rohleder Surveyor North Side, James Rosebrough "Corner Store" Lee & Sherman November 14, 1877, J. S. Smith Real Estate No 10 Lee St October 1, 1877, T. R. & A. L. Tomblin Attorneys May 31, 1877, Dr. Thomas Physician Lee & Sherman June 4, 1877, Wardner & Charles L. Bittinger Grocery Lee St between Main & Sherman Next to Lovells May 4, 1877, E.W & H. H. Hurlbut Sodawater Fountain June 20, 1877, Welf & McDonald Ladies' Emporium No 13 Lee St north side across from American House June 28, 1877 - August 1, 1877, Doc Baggs Adolphia & Melodeon Gambling Houses August 27, 1877
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Black Hills Daily Times July 10, 1877
Deadwood 1877, Lee Street merchant signs, Lee Street Blacksmith James Langan Colorado Blacksmith May 19, 1877, F. C. Ayres Paint Shop November 2, 1877, Ruggles & Swazie American House sold & changed name to E. Welch's Hotel July 24, 1877, Black Hills Telegraph Company moved to Welch's Hotel October 18, 1877, Tom Cornforth's Fruits & Produce November 1877, H. J. Brendlinger Cash Tobacco & Cigar Store opened July 2, 1877, J. Siegrist & D. Robinson Occidental Chop House & Sample Room April 13, 1877 sold to Charles Hillery & Danbar Confectionary & Lunchroom November 1877, Lodging, Law Office, Sol Bloom's Furnishing Goods Hat Boot & Shoe House corner of Lee & Main Street, Sol Bloom hung his sign in front of his business July 10, 1877 and advertised his hat emporium & clothing business as opposite corner of Custer House, Lee Street November 16, 1877. Other Lee Street merchants not signed, Chas Borchers Casino Saloon June 22, 1877, Bullock & Star buy lot corner lot Lee & Sherman St April 21, 1877, Kemp & Asche Bonanza Saloon June 21, 1877, Benjamin Edington Bon Ton Restaurant & Saloon September 15, 1877, R. H. Geary & Company Denver Meat Market April 18, 1877, Higbie & Russell Tobacco May 31, 1877, William George Hollins Attorney Lee & Main April 9, 1877, Fishel Key West Cigars July 6, 1877, Hughes & McNary Cigars October 29, 1877, May's Hall September 27, 1877, E. J. Bennett, Attorney & Counselor at Law Lee Street, William T. Lyons & Moor Assays April 9, 1877, William McHugh Grocery July 7, 1877, J. D. McIntyre Surveyor & Mining Engineer May 18, 1877, D. S. Miller & Company Grocery April 28, 1877, H.B. Montgomery Oyster Bay Restaurant May 26, 1877, Harry Lovell Pretty Bijou Saloon June 16, 1877, Henry C. Rohleder Surveyor North Side, James Rosebrough "Corner Store" Lee & Sherman November 14, 1877, J. S. Smith Real Estate No 10 Lee St October 1, 1877, T. R. & A. L. Tomblin Attorneys May 31, 1877, Dr. Thomas Physician Lee & Sherman June 4, 1877, Wardner & Charles L. Bittinger Grocery Lee St between Main & Sherman Next to Lovells May 4, 1877, E.W & H. H. Hurlbut Sodawater Fountain June 20, 1877, Welf & McDonald Ladies' Emporium No 13 Lee St north side across from American House June 28, 1877 - August 1, 1877, Doc Baggs Adolphia & Melodeon Gambling Houses August 27, 1877
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Sturgis, Dakota Territory 1887 - 1892, Copyright © Photographer John C. H. Grabill, Library of Congress
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Historic Deadwood Photos
Photo of Deadwood 1876 by Photographer S. J. Morrow,
© The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
Gordon Stockade 1876 on French Creek in Dakota Territory, a civilian stockade located near present day Custer in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Men pose at the entrance to the stockade,
Photographer D. S. Daniel Sedgley, © Denver Public Library.
Toll Gate at the foot of Big Hill, Whitewood, Deadwood South Dakota, 1876,
Photographer D. S. Daniel Sedgley, © Denver Public Library.
Deadwood Stage Old Silver Top, Deadwood South Dakota, January 22, 1876,
Driver holds shotgun, two men on ground, one of whom is Tom Grant, © Denver Public Library.
Scene of the massacre of the Metz Family 1876, Red Canyon, 38 mile south of Custer City,
Photographer D. S. Daniel Sedgley, © Denver Public Library.
Mining Claim 14 and 15 below discovery, Deadwood Gulch, miners running sluice boxes 1876
Unprecedented yield Deadwood Gulch No. 14 below discovery, No. 15 below discovery, Robert P. Kennon, M. J. Flanney, Black Hills Pioneer, July 1, 1876. Death Robert P. Kennon Black Hills Daily Pioneer Oct 14 1876. No. 14 below discovery, found spectacles, thigh bone Black Hills Daily Times May 29 1877.
© Denver Public Library.
Gold miners, boxed sluice in a gold placer mine pit, Black Hills, South Dakota 1876,
© Denver Public Library.
Gold miner dress and attire while in a gold placer mine pit, Black Hills, South Dakota 1876,
© Denver Public Library.
Miners in a gold placer mine pit, tailings, sluice boxes, and wheelbarrows, Black Hills, South Dakota 1876,
© Denver Public Library.
Hidden Treasure Mine, claim May 13, 1876, located two miles outside of Deadwood on Spring Gulch, produced twenty thousand dollars in gold within the year,
Deadwood, South Dakota © Denver Public Library.
Pioneer Quartz mill located a short distance above Gayville on Deadwood gulch September 25, 1876,
consisted of a Blake crusher and Bolthoff ball pulverizer powered by steam was brought to the Black Hills by Captain C. V. Gardner by heavy freight wagons to process conglomerate ore from the Hidden Treasure mine on Spring Gulch, South Dakota © Denver Public Library.
Deadwood South Dakota 1876, early Main Street,
© American Memory Library of Congress.
Deadwood South Dakota 1876 -1877, early Main Street resident, photo of "Aunt Sally" Sarah A. Campbell, 1st African American in the Black Hills,
© Denver Public Library.
Deadwood South Dakota 1876 - 1877, early Main Street tents, log cabins and buildings under construction. Pioneer "Aunt Sally" Sarah A. Campbell's tent shown next to a large ball of wooden sticks, was located at the entrance to Deadwood City,
Photographer W. G. William Gunnison Chamberlain, © Denver Public Library.
Deadwood South Dakota 1876 -1877, early Main Street,"Aunt Sally" Sarah A. Campbell in foregound with white apron, street scene includes C. H. Flucken Denver Grocery, J. Shoudy City Meat Market located in the Deadwood Post Office and the Senate Saloon,
© South Dakota State Historical Society and BlackPast.org.
Unknown human and animal remains Custer Battle as of 1877,
site of the Battle of Little Bighorn near the Crow Agency, Montana, © Denver Public Library.
Lieut. J. J. Crittenden, 20th Infantry, fell here in Custer Battle, June 25, 1876,
site of the Battle of Little Bighorn near the Crow Agency, Montana, View 1877 of a man painting letters on the grave cross of Lieutenant J. J. Crittenden, of the 20th Infantry, who died in the Little Bighorn Battle in 1876, © Denver Public Library.
Deadwood City 1878
© Denver Public Library.
Deadwood Coach about 1885, traveling high above Deadwood Gulch, passengers and messenger atop, pulled by a team of six white horses,
© Denver Public Library.
Photo of Deadwood 1877 by Photographer F. Jay Haynes, Lower Main Street scene of buildings Hukill Big Bonanza Meat Market, Creedmore Gun Shop & Salt Lake House, © Montana Historical Society.
Cool 19th Century Deadwood Monicur and Nicknames of People, Restaurants, Saloons, Hotels and Horses. You won't discover a better nickname or Web posting handle.
Western dress of the late 1870's - 1880’s for gold rush miners and cowboys alike were described as being way up, nobby and swell. Silk hats and white vests sometimes worn as two, wool shirts with diamond studs, straight standing celluloid bon ton collarettes, embroidered head bands, white plug hats with suspenders, silver spurs and four inch metallic hat bands would be considered quite toney garments for a young bower if accessorized with button cuffs made from nickel coins and red scarves pulled through a poker chip ring.
Deadwood's first legal law sprang to life as Governor’s Pennington’s newly appointed commissioners arrive in town April 19, 1877. As anticipation of fall 1877 general elections grow, political parties began to emerge. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Peoples Party The Third Party, businesses and social organizations A.F., A.M. and I.O.O.F., Odd Fellows and Freemasons are thrown into the mix. Carpet Baggers rise to the occasion. Vigilantes and regulators take the law into their own hands.
Al Swearingen
Gem Saloon and Theatre
Bella Union Theatre
George Hearst and Homestake Mine
Deadwood Gold Nuggets, largest nugget found in The Black Hills.
Mining Experts Do A Number on Deadwood's Mining Industy and Stock Exchange 1800s, Mining Stocks, Shares Stock Selling San Francisco Stock Exchange, Homestake Mine, Deadwood 1877.
Scarcity of Water, The Homestake vs Father DeSmet Water Controversy, Who Will Supply Water to Deadwood 1800s, two California owned mining companies take it to the voters. Political ads fill the newspapers with accusations that water provided by Dakota and Wyoming Water Company might not be "so pleasant" since it ran beneath Mt. Moriah Cemetery. Deadwood faces a battle for a limited resource as mines shut off water to the towns to keep their operations running and miners employed.
Deadwood Stampede of 1876, up and down Deadwood Gulch everyone stakes their claim, names of mines worked and pioneer miners.
Dan Doherty.
Seth and Martha Bullock.
Sol Star Deadwood Postmaster and Mayor.
Wild Bill Hickok.
Charley Utter.
Samuel Fields.
Calamity Jane.
E. B. Farnum.
Jack Langrishe.
Deadwood Politics, Republican, Democrat, Independent.
Deadwood's Big Fire September 1879, Hank Beaman the man who lovingly established Deadwood’s first Hook and Ladder Company would eventually take the fall as the politics of the Big Ddeadwood Fire of September 1879 rekindled. "Start a dog down hill and everyone will kick him" 1880.
19th Century Taboos Addressed in the Newspapers, Deadwood cases of adultery, desertion, seduction, abortion, infanticide, parental kidnapping and rape 1800s.
Photographers of Deadwood 1800s, "John Grabill an artist in every sense of word", John H. C. Grabill, Stanley J. Morrow, W. G. Chamberlain, Daniel Sedgley Mitchell, W. V. Herancourt.
Deadwood 19th Century Popular Actors, Actresses and Productions.
Deadwood Variety Music Hall Stage Acts 1876 - 1897, Negro minstrels, Clog and Jig Comic Dancers, Serio-comic Singers and Ethiopian Dutch Irish Comedians, acrobats, contortionists and Double Trapeze Acts, Sketch Artists and Marksmanship, Living Statuary and Deadwood Brass Bands.
Pioneer Newspaper and A. W. Merrick.
Deadwood News, humorous sayings, phrases, idioms, quotes, quips, jokes, funnies, comedy and laughs in the newspapers 1877 - 1885. "Barney, drunk, not liking looks of horse, shot it" 1877. "Pard, if this fixes me, the mule is yours" 1879.
Outlaws Robbers and Bunko Steerers.
Stage Robbers and Road Agents.
Deadwood Lawmen, Messengers and Vigilantes.
Notorius Deadwood Murder Trials.
Deadwood's Mollie Johnson and Her Three Golden Haired Proteges, Frail and Fallen Sisters, Fair Amazons, Soiled Doves, Madames and Demi Monde.
Characters One of a Kind Deadwood Residents.
The Suspicious Suicide of Deadwood's Mining King Daniel Harnett Widow Hattie Harnett Takes the Reins of Her Husband's Interests, Overseeing Mines and Establishing Her Own "The Assay Office" Saloon.
Deadwood 1800s Suicide by Cut Throats, Hanging, Leaping, Head Shots, Poison, Laudanum, Chloroform.
Thomas Edison's Dream of 1878, Deadwood Embrases 19th Century Inventions.
Deadwood The Business of Doing Business 1876 - 1886 Cost of goods, sugar, coffee, butter, bacon, eggs, peaches, tomatoes, milk, flour, bread, room and board to telegrams. Square meal for twenty-five cents, Sherman St, ad Sep 01 1883. Grand Central Hotel, beds 50 cents November 1, 1883.
Deadwood As It Was 1876 - 1879, Businesses Described Along Main St, Saloons to Brothels.
Deadwood Women and Mining 1800s
Women Occupations in a Victorian World, Deadwood Female Owned Business and Mines 1876 - 1894, Aunt Sally, A Black Woman and Claim Owner, A Lady of Firsts, Assay Office, Saloon, Hattie Harnett, Proprietress, Ladies Making It In a Man's World, Ladies Not To Be Messed With, Mrs. M. G. Tonn Arrested for Parental Kidnapping, Holds Off Husband and Deputy at Bismarck, Ex-Mrs. Tonn Goes Into The Boarding House Business, Women with Jobs Outside of the Home, Jessie Skinner and the Union Saloon, Cynthia Cleveland Woman Attorney, Elizabeth Orr, Central City's Lady Physician
Goes On Trial for the Death of Wife, Star and Bullock Employee, Madame Henrico, Medical Clairvoyant, Fortune Teller, Dressmaker, Modern shylock Henrico Livinston Takes on Father Rosen and The Catholic Church, Madam Frenchy tells the future and past on Main St, Female Tonsorial Artists, Dr. Lizzie S. Barr Lady Doctor In Search of Betrothed Matrimonial Newspaper Response, Notorious Mrs. Elizabeth Lovell Maliciously Shoots Citizen, Woman defends land like historic female knight, Women in Trouble with the Law, Aunt Lu's Boarding House, Lucretia Marshbanks, Proprietress, Longtime Madame and Mother Dwyer, Hattie Bell Dies, Brothel Partner and Wife Mary Dwyer Opts to Open a Women's Seminary, 1880 Federal Census Women as Head of Household.
Jews and Judaism Deadwood's Hebrew Hill Miners and Jewish Community 1800s.
Deadwood Minorities and Racism, Chinese, Black American, Indian 1800s Prejudice, Racism, Slurs, Gender Bender within Deadwood's Minority Communities 1876 - 1894.
Deadwood Celebrates Holidays 1800s Secular and Religious Holidays Deadwood 1876 - 1894, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Seasons of Lent, Presidents' Day, Valentines Day.
Rich Famous Noteable Pay A Visit To Deadwood 1800s.
Fashionable 1800s Western Dress and Attire Deadwood Dress, Suits, Hats, Coats, Boots and Vests.
Deadwood Fun Things To Do 1876 - 1894 Whist, Memble Peg, Cribbage, The Fifteen Puzzle Craze, Dancing, Pedestrian Mania, Phantasmagoria Magic Lantern Show.
Deadwood Gentlemen's Entertainment 1876 - 1879
Prize Fights, Horse Races, Wrestling Matches, Billiards to Baseball, The Professional Pedestrians And Walking Matches.
Deadwood's Gambling Community
Bunko Steerer and Shell Game Artist Doc Baggs, Card Games of Chance, Poker, Stud, Faro, Seven Up 1876 - 1894.
Deadwood Religion Preacher Smith, Congregational, Episcopal, Catholic, Judaism 1800s, Gold Rush sermons and churches 1876 - 1894, "Early piety in this city, Preacher Smith", Clara Cleveland and The Temperance Movement comes to Deadwood.
Deadwood Stage Arrivals by Surname 1876 - 1879, Business & Commercial Directories.
Leadville CO Population Swells With Deadwood Miners and Businessmen January 1879.
Deadwood's Mining Neighbors Elizabethtown, Chinatown, Central City and Lead 1800s Close Neighbors and Strategic Partners, Towns of Deadwood Gulch, Centers of Trade Central City to Lead 1876 - 1894. Deadwood incorporated the towns of Deadwood, Chinatown, Elizabethtown, Fountain City, Highland Park, Ingleside and Cleveland into one metropolis in 1881. The distance to Deadwood from it's neighbors and mining camps in the area via roads and trails of the time along with significant headlines of people and places.
Gold rush Deadwood experienced the heyday of entertainment. Take a step back into the hearts and minds of a Deadwood audience, experience what made them laugh and cry at their local variety music hall. Artists once described as Little Pearly Duval "a pretty child contortionist", Minnie and Lillie Hassan Sisters "beautiful little song and dance artists", Mademoiselle Jeannette and Lola Parchal Queen of the Trapeze "will do Leap for Life through a fire balloon", Little Etolia and the Celeste Sisters "the fairy elf of song and dance", Mademoiselle Louise "a bevy of grace and beauty", Trixy and Vernie Vernon "marvel of beauty and way up as queen of song", Inez Sexton "queen of operatic and ballad song", "no one can sing higher, lower, softer or sweeter" kept music hall Gem and Bella Union theatre goers singing their praises.
Deadwood 19th Century Database Obscure Variety Performers, Stage Actors and Managers
Photo of Deadwood 1876 by Photographer S. J. Morrow,
© The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
Gordon Stockade 1876 on French Creek in Dakota Territory, a civilian stockade located near present day Custer in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Men pose at the entrance to the stockade,
Photographer D. S. Daniel Sedgley, © Denver Public Library.
Toll Gate at the foot of Big Hill, Whitewood, Deadwood South Dakota, 1876,
Photographer D. S. Daniel Sedgley, © Denver Public Library.
Deadwood Stage Old Silver Top, Deadwood South Dakota, January 22, 1876,
Driver holds shotgun, two men on ground, one of whom is Tom Grant, © Denver Public Library.
Scene of the massacre of the Metz Family 1876, Red Canyon, 38 mile south of Custer City,
Photographer D. S. Daniel Sedgley, © Denver Public Library.
Mining Claim 14 and 15 below discovery, Deadwood Gulch, miners running sluice boxes 1876
Unprecedented yield Deadwood Gulch No. 14 below discovery, No. 15 below discovery, Robert P. Kennon, M. J. Flanney, Black Hills Pioneer, July 1, 1876. Death Robert P. Kennon Black Hills Daily Pioneer Oct 14 1876. No. 14 below discovery, found spectacles, thigh bone Black Hills Daily Times May 29 1877.
© Denver Public Library.
Gold miners, boxed sluice in a gold placer mine pit, Black Hills, South Dakota 1876,
© Denver Public Library.
Gold miner dress and attire while in a gold placer mine pit, Black Hills, South Dakota 1876,
© Denver Public Library.
Miners in a gold placer mine pit, tailings, sluice boxes, and wheelbarrows, Black Hills, South Dakota 1876,
© Denver Public Library.
Hidden Treasure Mine, claim May 13, 1876, located two miles outside of Deadwood on Spring Gulch, produced twenty thousand dollars in gold within the year,
Deadwood, South Dakota © Denver Public Library.
Pioneer Quartz mill located a short distance above Gayville on Deadwood gulch September 25, 1876,
consisted of a Blake crusher and Bolthoff ball pulverizer powered by steam was brought to the Black Hills by Captain C. V. Gardner by heavy freight wagons to process conglomerate ore from the Hidden Treasure mine on Spring Gulch, South Dakota © Denver Public Library.
Deadwood South Dakota 1876, early Main Street,
© American Memory Library of Congress.
Deadwood South Dakota 1876 -1877, early Main Street resident, photo of "Aunt Sally" Sarah A. Campbell, 1st African American in the Black Hills,
© Denver Public Library.
Deadwood South Dakota 1876 - 1877, early Main Street tents, log cabins and buildings under construction. Pioneer "Aunt Sally" Sarah A. Campbell's tent shown next to a large ball of wooden sticks, was located at the entrance to Deadwood City,
Photographer W. G. William Gunnison Chamberlain, © Denver Public Library.
Deadwood South Dakota 1876 -1877, early Main Street,"Aunt Sally" Sarah A. Campbell in foregound with white apron, street scene includes C. H. Flucken Denver Grocery, J. Shoudy City Meat Market located in the Deadwood Post Office and the Senate Saloon,
© South Dakota State Historical Society and BlackPast.org.
Unknown human and animal remains Custer Battle as of 1877,
site of the Battle of Little Bighorn near the Crow Agency, Montana, © Denver Public Library.
Lieut. J. J. Crittenden, 20th Infantry, fell here in Custer Battle, June 25, 1876,
site of the Battle of Little Bighorn near the Crow Agency, Montana, View 1877 of a man painting letters on the grave cross of Lieutenant J. J. Crittenden, of the 20th Infantry, who died in the Little Bighorn Battle in 1876, © Denver Public Library.
Deadwood City 1878
© Denver Public Library.
Deadwood Coach about 1885, traveling high above Deadwood Gulch, passengers and messenger atop, pulled by a team of six white horses,
© Denver Public Library.
Photo of Deadwood 1877 by Photographer F. Jay Haynes, Lower Main Street scene of buildings Hukill Big Bonanza Meat Market, Creedmore Gun Shop & Salt Lake House, © Montana Historical Society.
Cool 19th Century Deadwood Monicur and Nicknames of People, Restaurants, Saloons, Hotels and Horses. You won't discover a better nickname or Web posting handle.
Western dress of the late 1870's - 1880’s for gold rush miners and cowboys alike were described as being way up, nobby and swell. Silk hats and white vests sometimes worn as two, wool shirts with diamond studs, straight standing celluloid bon ton collarettes, embroidered head bands, white plug hats with suspenders, silver spurs and four inch metallic hat bands would be considered quite toney garments for a young bower if accessorized with button cuffs made from nickel coins and red scarves pulled through a poker chip ring.
Deadwood's first legal law sprang to life as Governor’s Pennington’s newly appointed commissioners arrive in town April 19, 1877. As anticipation of fall 1877 general elections grow, political parties began to emerge. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Peoples Party The Third Party, businesses and social organizations A.F., A.M. and I.O.O.F., Odd Fellows and Freemasons are thrown into the mix. Carpet Baggers rise to the occasion. Vigilantes and regulators take the law into their own hands.
Al Swearingen
Gem Saloon and Theatre
Bella Union Theatre
George Hearst and Homestake Mine
Deadwood Gold Nuggets, largest nugget found in The Black Hills.
Mining Experts Do A Number on Deadwood's Mining Industy and Stock Exchange 1800s, Mining Stocks, Shares Stock Selling San Francisco Stock Exchange, Homestake Mine, Deadwood 1877.
Scarcity of Water, The Homestake vs Father DeSmet Water Controversy, Who Will Supply Water to Deadwood 1800s, two California owned mining companies take it to the voters. Political ads fill the newspapers with accusations that water provided by Dakota and Wyoming Water Company might not be "so pleasant" since it ran beneath Mt. Moriah Cemetery. Deadwood faces a battle for a limited resource as mines shut off water to the towns to keep their operations running and miners employed.
Deadwood Stampede of 1876, up and down Deadwood Gulch everyone stakes their claim, names of mines worked and pioneer miners.
Dan Doherty.
Seth and Martha Bullock.
Sol Star Deadwood Postmaster and Mayor.
Wild Bill Hickok.
Charley Utter.
Samuel Fields.
Calamity Jane.
E. B. Farnum.
Jack Langrishe.
Deadwood Politics, Republican, Democrat, Independent.
Deadwood's Big Fire September 1879, Hank Beaman the man who lovingly established Deadwood’s first Hook and Ladder Company would eventually take the fall as the politics of the Big Ddeadwood Fire of September 1879 rekindled. "Start a dog down hill and everyone will kick him" 1880.
19th Century Taboos Addressed in the Newspapers, Deadwood cases of adultery, desertion, seduction, abortion, infanticide, parental kidnapping and rape 1800s.
Photographers of Deadwood 1800s, "John Grabill an artist in every sense of word", John H. C. Grabill, Stanley J. Morrow, W. G. Chamberlain, Daniel Sedgley Mitchell, W. V. Herancourt.
Deadwood 19th Century Popular Actors, Actresses and Productions.
Deadwood Variety Music Hall Stage Acts 1876 - 1897, Negro minstrels, Clog and Jig Comic Dancers, Serio-comic Singers and Ethiopian Dutch Irish Comedians, acrobats, contortionists and Double Trapeze Acts, Sketch Artists and Marksmanship, Living Statuary and Deadwood Brass Bands.
Pioneer Newspaper and A. W. Merrick.
Deadwood News, humorous sayings, phrases, idioms, quotes, quips, jokes, funnies, comedy and laughs in the newspapers 1877 - 1885. "Barney, drunk, not liking looks of horse, shot it" 1877. "Pard, if this fixes me, the mule is yours" 1879.
Outlaws Robbers and Bunko Steerers.
Stage Robbers and Road Agents.
Deadwood Lawmen, Messengers and Vigilantes.
Notorius Deadwood Murder Trials.
Deadwood's Mollie Johnson and Her Three Golden Haired Proteges, Frail and Fallen Sisters, Fair Amazons, Soiled Doves, Madames and Demi Monde.
Characters One of a Kind Deadwood Residents.
The Suspicious Suicide of Deadwood's Mining King Daniel Harnett Widow Hattie Harnett Takes the Reins of Her Husband's Interests, Overseeing Mines and Establishing Her Own "The Assay Office" Saloon.
Deadwood 1800s Suicide by Cut Throats, Hanging, Leaping, Head Shots, Poison, Laudanum, Chloroform.
Thomas Edison's Dream of 1878, Deadwood Embrases 19th Century Inventions.
Deadwood The Business of Doing Business 1876 - 1886 Cost of goods, sugar, coffee, butter, bacon, eggs, peaches, tomatoes, milk, flour, bread, room and board to telegrams. Square meal for twenty-five cents, Sherman St, ad Sep 01 1883. Grand Central Hotel, beds 50 cents November 1, 1883.
Deadwood As It Was 1876 - 1879, Businesses Described Along Main St, Saloons to Brothels.
Deadwood Women and Mining 1800s
Women Occupations in a Victorian World, Deadwood Female Owned Business and Mines 1876 - 1894, Aunt Sally, A Black Woman and Claim Owner, A Lady of Firsts, Assay Office, Saloon, Hattie Harnett, Proprietress, Ladies Making It In a Man's World, Ladies Not To Be Messed With, Mrs. M. G. Tonn Arrested for Parental Kidnapping, Holds Off Husband and Deputy at Bismarck, Ex-Mrs. Tonn Goes Into The Boarding House Business, Women with Jobs Outside of the Home, Jessie Skinner and the Union Saloon, Cynthia Cleveland Woman Attorney, Elizabeth Orr, Central City's Lady Physician
Goes On Trial for the Death of Wife, Star and Bullock Employee, Madame Henrico, Medical Clairvoyant, Fortune Teller, Dressmaker, Modern shylock Henrico Livinston Takes on Father Rosen and The Catholic Church, Madam Frenchy tells the future and past on Main St, Female Tonsorial Artists, Dr. Lizzie S. Barr Lady Doctor In Search of Betrothed Matrimonial Newspaper Response, Notorious Mrs. Elizabeth Lovell Maliciously Shoots Citizen, Woman defends land like historic female knight, Women in Trouble with the Law, Aunt Lu's Boarding House, Lucretia Marshbanks, Proprietress, Longtime Madame and Mother Dwyer, Hattie Bell Dies, Brothel Partner and Wife Mary Dwyer Opts to Open a Women's Seminary, 1880 Federal Census Women as Head of Household.
Jews and Judaism Deadwood's Hebrew Hill Miners and Jewish Community 1800s.
Deadwood Minorities and Racism, Chinese, Black American, Indian 1800s Prejudice, Racism, Slurs, Gender Bender within Deadwood's Minority Communities 1876 - 1894.
Deadwood Celebrates Holidays 1800s Secular and Religious Holidays Deadwood 1876 - 1894, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Seasons of Lent, Presidents' Day, Valentines Day.
Rich Famous Noteable Pay A Visit To Deadwood 1800s.
Fashionable 1800s Western Dress and Attire Deadwood Dress, Suits, Hats, Coats, Boots and Vests.
Deadwood Fun Things To Do 1876 - 1894 Whist, Memble Peg, Cribbage, The Fifteen Puzzle Craze, Dancing, Pedestrian Mania, Phantasmagoria Magic Lantern Show.
Deadwood Gentlemen's Entertainment 1876 - 1879
Prize Fights, Horse Races, Wrestling Matches, Billiards to Baseball, The Professional Pedestrians And Walking Matches.
Deadwood's Gambling Community
Bunko Steerer and Shell Game Artist Doc Baggs, Card Games of Chance, Poker, Stud, Faro, Seven Up 1876 - 1894.
Deadwood Religion Preacher Smith, Congregational, Episcopal, Catholic, Judaism 1800s, Gold Rush sermons and churches 1876 - 1894, "Early piety in this city, Preacher Smith", Clara Cleveland and The Temperance Movement comes to Deadwood.
Deadwood Stage Arrivals by Surname 1876 - 1879, Business & Commercial Directories.
Leadville CO Population Swells With Deadwood Miners and Businessmen January 1879.
Deadwood's Mining Neighbors Elizabethtown, Chinatown, Central City and Lead 1800s Close Neighbors and Strategic Partners, Towns of Deadwood Gulch, Centers of Trade Central City to Lead 1876 - 1894. Deadwood incorporated the towns of Deadwood, Chinatown, Elizabethtown, Fountain City, Highland Park, Ingleside and Cleveland into one metropolis in 1881. The distance to Deadwood from it's neighbors and mining camps in the area via roads and trails of the time along with significant headlines of people and places.
Gold rush Deadwood experienced the heyday of entertainment. Take a step back into the hearts and minds of a Deadwood audience, experience what made them laugh and cry at their local variety music hall. Artists once described as Little Pearly Duval "a pretty child contortionist", Minnie and Lillie Hassan Sisters "beautiful little song and dance artists", Mademoiselle Jeannette and Lola Parchal Queen of the Trapeze "will do Leap for Life through a fire balloon", Little Etolia and the Celeste Sisters "the fairy elf of song and dance", Mademoiselle Louise "a bevy of grace and beauty", Trixy and Vernie Vernon "marvel of beauty and way up as queen of song", Inez Sexton "queen of operatic and ballad song", "no one can sing higher, lower, softer or sweeter" kept music hall Gem and Bella Union theatre goers singing their praises.
Deadwood 19th Century Database Obscure Variety Performers, Stage Actors and Managers
- Deadwood 101, Theatrical Amusements Come and Go from Burlesque, Blind Boone, Famous Dog Tiger, Georgia Jubilee Singers et al!. Deadwood 102, Variety Theatre Managers, Impresarios and Agents, Director of Amusements.