Deadwood: The True Story of Wild Bill Hickok | Historic Travel Guide

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<p>Dakota to explore the wild, lawless history of Deadwood and the dramatic life</p>
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<p>and sudden death of Wild Bill Hickok.</p>
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<p>This episode quickly became a huge fan favorite, and with so many</p>
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<p>So sit back, set your cruise control,</p>
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<p>and let's head out to Deadwood.</p>
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<p>Now, Wild Bill Hickok was a legendary figure of the American Wild West,</p>
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<p>renowned for his exceptional shooting skills and reputation as a gunslinger.</p>
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<p>He served as a lawman, marshal, and scout during the Civil War, and</p>
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<p>afterward in various frontier towns.</p>
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<p>Despite his law enforcement roles, he did have some bad habits and made some enemies</p>
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<p>that brought him to his now famous demise.</p>
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<p>So Jenn, let's talk about this famous figure of the Wild West</p>
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<p>and where we were this summer.</p>
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<p>Yeah, so we went to Deadwood, South Dakota.</p>
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<p>We did.</p>
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<p>It was, h- honestly, it was kind of one of the few places I got a little more</p>
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<p>excited to, to go see, just because of the reputation of Deadwood, the show,</p>
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<p>and just the whole Wild West thing.</p>
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<p>Sure, and like-</p>
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<p>The recreation of the picture of Main Street Deadwood is the exact historic Main</p>
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<p>Street you walk down in Deadwood today.</p>
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<p>So if you watch the show or anything like that, like you're, you're walking</p>
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<p>through history of what made this town, what made this town so quickly</p>
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<p>and even what it's known for today.</p>
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<p>Yeah, and even I've noticed in the video, right, it's been out for a</p>
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<p>few days now, I, I've noticed the watch time is a little bit longer.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>And so YouTube kind of gives us these good kind of feedback metrics</p>
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<p>because, uh, you know, I found some cool music that was actually very,</p>
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<p>fits very well with the story.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>This kind of dead man walking song.</p>
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<p>But there's lots of pictures of Deadwood.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>And you describe it very well, even in the video when we're walking down this paved</p>
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<p>modern-day street, you know, with some throwback kind of touristy stuff, but then</p>
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<p>showing the old pictures of these muddy-</p>
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<p>Muddy</p>
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<p>it's just- Just dirt … dirty-</p>
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<p>Road, and it's not even a road, I would just say a clearing, where they have</p>
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<p>built up these makeshift wooden buildings?</p>
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<p>I wouldn't even use built, building.</p>
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<p>This is like a d- it's like a, these lean tos that they have made and called them</p>
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<p>saloons and called them brothels and-</p>
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<p>Well, and, and you can picture it, right?</p>
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<p>'Cause you talk about it in the video why they named it Deadwood.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>The, a gulch of dead trees were found there, and it is a little valley,</p>
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<p>'cause it is pretty hilly around there, and you're in the Black Hills,</p>
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<p>so, uh, here's a, a, a valley area, and they found these gulch of dead</p>
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<p>trees, so they called it Deadwood.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And so remind me the era that everything kind of started coming together out there.</p>
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<p>So you have to remember, this does not, this is, uh, American Indian territory.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that's right.</p>
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<p>It's not a state.</p>
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<p>It is not a state, and this is gonna come, come problem for Hickok's</p>
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<p>murder, but this land belongs to the Lakota, and it's belonged to them since</p>
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<p>the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868.</p>
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<p>So you can think almost, um- 10 years it's been their land.</p>
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<p>Oh, wow.</p>
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<p>And what happens is George Armstrong Custer comes through</p>
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<p>there in 1874, so about six years.</p>
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<p>He's out there enforcing these treaties, and this is what we get</p>
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<p>into Big Horn, which we, we'll talk about on another episode.</p>
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<p>He's enforcing these, uh, treaties where the American Indians have adhered</p>
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<p>to staying on certain areas, hence reservations, and he's riding through</p>
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<p>here when gold is discovered, 1874, 1875.</p>
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<p>And so it becomes this big boom where people wanna go make their fortunes.</p>
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<p>Yeah, the word gets out.</p>
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<p>The word gets out, and so they can't stop this influx of people,</p>
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<p>even though they should be.</p>
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<p>George Armstrong Custer should be stopping these people 'cause it's not, uh, their</p>
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<p>land, and they shouldn't be settling it.</p>
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<p>It belongs to the Lakota.</p>
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<p>But he doesn't 'cause he's part of it.</p>
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<p>He also wants the gold and-</p>
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<p>Of course</p>
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<p>… uh, and so he allows these people to come in, and he, the military kind of, like,</p>
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<p>turns a blind eye to it, and they start to have these little makeshift buildings</p>
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<p>that pop up to service all the fortune hunters, miners that come into the area.</p>
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<p>So this is about 1876, 5,000 people.</p>
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<p>1877, 12,000 people.</p>
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<p>1878, 25,000 people.</p>
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<p>See,</p>
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<p>that kinda surprised me.</p>
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<p>Even when I went back and I was making the video, like that is, especially back</p>
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<p>then- Mm-hmm … that is a drastic growth.</p>
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<p>Drastic, right?</p>
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<p>And so it, it's incomprehensible how they could even govern it to begin with.</p>
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<p>So it becomes a very lawless area, as you can imagine, because you get all these</p>
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<p>men coming in to make their fortune, and so you get a lot of gambling.</p>
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<p>You get a lot of alcoholism, and you get Hickok, who's called here-</p>
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<p>You get the brothels</p>
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<p>and all that stuff … I know.</p>
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<p>Of course, you get the brothels pop up.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And we'll talk a little bit about one of the, the most famous madams who's very</p>
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<p>close to Hickok, um, from the most, um, profitable brothel there in Deadwood.</p>
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<p>But yeah, so th- these are things that are gonna pop up for all these men.</p>
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<p>You're gonna get, um, you know, restaurants, saloons pop up.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Livery.</p>
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<p>So livery is where you put your horse.</p>
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<p>Butcher shops.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>Uh, and makeshift tents and things like that, and brothels.</p>
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<p>So what happens is you get wagon trains who this is their business</p>
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<p>to, uh, you know, bring people, lead people from one area to another.</p>
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<p>They navigate you through, right?</p>
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<p>And if you watched 1883, this is a business of the time.</p>
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<p>Usually, you're paid before to take people through, and you,</p>
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<p>you will help with supplies.</p>
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<p>You know the area.</p>
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<p>You, you're, you do the safety, and then you're paid once you get</p>
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<p>there, and that's basically your pay.</p>
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<p>So Hickok takes a wagon train.</p>
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<p>From Fort Laramie, which is so interesting.</p>
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<p>This, the Treaty of Fort Laramie- Yeah</p>
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<p>that is adhering to these, uh, Indian lands.</p>
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<p>So this is the big fort of Wyoming, and this is still Wyoming Territory, and</p>
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<p>this is Dakota Territory, so they're not even states, which a- again,</p>
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<p>they're not governed in that way.</p>
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<p>So he, uh, Hickok takes a wagon train from Fort Laramie to Deadwood</p>
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<p>Now at this point in his life and career, he'd already been, he already has a</p>
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<p>reputation, if I remember correctly.</p>
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<p>He's been a marshal for a little while, so he already kind of</p>
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<p>has all this kind of notoriety.</p>
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<p>So yes, James Butler Hickok, he's born May 27th, 1837.</p>
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<p>Um, he's a folk hero of the Old West, m- but mo- mostly because he</p>
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<p>comes up beside Buffalo Bill Cody.</p>
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<p>So he comes up beside him, so his stories are told with him.</p>
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<p>Now, Cody can capitalize on those a little better than Hickok, but it doesn't</p>
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<p>mean Hickok's stories don't get told.</p>
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<p>So yes, uh, Hickok is, uh, he leaves his home at 18 years old, Illinois.</p>
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<p>He, uh, becomes a lawman in Kansas, Abilene, Kansas.</p>
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<p>That'll be important later.</p>
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<p>In Nebraska, he becomes a scout for the Union Army, just like</p>
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<p>Buffalo Cody, and he, um, and he, he meets, like, these kind of people</p>
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<p>who do shows and stuff like that.</p>
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<p>So he has met a woman who's part of the circus, and he marries her in</p>
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<p>Cheyenne, and they're married in March.</p>
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<p>Her name is Agnes Thatcher Lake, and you show a picture of her in the video.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
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<p>And she's a 50-year-old widow f- of the circus.</p>
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<p>So these two, they're running in these same kind of circles.</p>
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<p>And she was actually, like, a very famous, very well-traveled, very i- in that,</p>
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<p>in the circus kind of, you know, world.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>She was like, I was reading about her a little bit.</p>
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<p>She's actually very well-known.</p>
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<p>She's very well-known, and so she stays in Cheyenne.</p>
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<p>So you can imagine, they're getting married March of 1876.</p>
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<p>He's going to Fort Laramie, so Fort Laramie's right outside of Cheyenne,</p>
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<p>and he's getting there by June, and then by, he takes the wagon train</p>
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<p>from, uh, June to July to Deadwood.</p>
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<p>And so sh- and she stays behind, and he wants to make his fortune, 'cause</p>
<p></p>
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<p>he's heard about all this gold.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:50</time>
<p>Of course.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:51</time>
<p>And so he's like, "I'm gonna make it rich quickly."</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:53</time>
<p>And he's a gambler.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:54</time>
<p>And he's a gambler.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:55</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:55</time>
<p>So he joins Charlie Utter's wagon train, and Charlie Utter, if you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:00</time>
<p>know anything about Wild Bill Hickok, it's the name on the tombstone.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:05</time>
<p>And we'll talk more about that, because Charlie, uh, Charlie</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:07</time>
<p>Utter is a fan of Hickok.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:10</time>
<p>It's his wagon train, and they all meet up in Fort Laramie, and another person joins</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:15</time>
<p>the wagon train then too, Calamity Jane.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:16</time>
<p>So they take the train, the wagon train together.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:19</time>
<p>So Calamity Jane didn't know Hickok well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:22</time>
<p>They met this one time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:23</time>
<p>They, they must have… I, I, the more I thought about it, like, and,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:27</time>
<p>and we talk about it later in the video, like, her dying wish- Mm-hmm</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:30</time>
<p>was to be buried- Next … by, next to Wild Bill.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:33</time>
<p>Uh-huh.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:34</time>
<p>And the, it must have been one of those things.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:36</time>
<p>I, and maybe this is just kind of the romantic side of, you know, ou- out-</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:40</time>
<p>outlook that I have on, on stories like this sometimes, but they must have</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:43</time>
<p>just kind of, like, con- connected.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:45</time>
<p>Yeah, they- Right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:46</time>
<p>Just like birds of a feather.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:47</time>
<p>They hit it off.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:47</time>
<p>Same, same spirit.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:48</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:48</time>
<p>They hit it off, you know.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:50</time>
<p>Because for some reason, w- throughout history, those two names</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:54</time>
<p>have always gone together, and, and to your point, historically they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:58</time>
<p>didn't spend a ton of time together.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:00</time>
<p>They didn't, but you can imagine there probably are not a lot of women acting</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:04</time>
<p>like Calamity Jane at this time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:06</time>
<p>She's very much adhering to men gender norms.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:09</time>
<p>She's wearing men clothing, and she's succumbed to alcoholism, so she's drinking</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:13</time>
<p>every day, which Hickok is also an alcoholic, so he's drinking every day.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:18</time>
<p>So there's some shared hardship-</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:20</time>
<p>Sure</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:20</time>
<p>… that they have together on this wagon train.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:22</time>
<p>A drink,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:22</time>
<p>drinking buddy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:23</time>
<p>Drinking buddy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:24</time>
<p>She's a good shot.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:24</time>
<p>He's a good shot.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:26</time>
<p>They can tell stories together.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:28</time>
<p>They can laugh together.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:29</time>
<p>So they probably connected.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:35</time>
<p>Well, and even like the more that I learned about them, and y- again,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:38</time>
<p>you mention it in the video, uh, and, and I'll link the video in the,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:42</time>
<p>the show notes for this podcast.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:44</time>
<p>But you talk about her, she's got kind of a big heart, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:47</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:47</time>
<p>When she, when she isn't drinking or when she is sober enough to, to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:50</time>
<p>do things, she is out there helping.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:52</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:52</time>
<p>And he kinda does the same thing, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:54</time>
<p>He's a lawman, he's a marshal.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:55</time>
<p>He's out there trying to enforce the law.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:57</time>
<p>So they both have that spirit about them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:59</time>
<p>Yeah, a charity heart.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:00</time>
<p>They have that charity heart.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:01</time>
<p>Now, I did read for him, his kinda habit, especially as a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:06</time>
<p>lawman, was incredibly rough.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:08</time>
<p>He kinda sought out the trouble, you know, and would go s- you know, from zero to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:13</time>
<p>fighting very, very quickly, and that's just kinda how he did his business.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:17</time>
<p>And even when I was looking up, there's been various movies made-</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:20</time>
<p>Mm-hmm … about Wild Bill Hickok and Deadwood, and different versions.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:24</time>
<p>The, there's the TV show.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:25</time>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:26</time>
<p>The, the couple versions that I saw, I think it was, it was a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:28</time>
<p>relatively well-known actor that did one of the movies or something</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:31</time>
<p>like that, but he just, he…</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:33</time>
<p>Like, somebody, somebody says something to him, like, off one time, or he's in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:37</time>
<p>Deadwood, or he's in some town- Mm-hmm … and someone's not supposed to have guns,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:40</time>
<p>and he finds out he has a gun, and he doesn't even, like, talk to the guy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:43</time>
<p>He just goes up and punches him in the face- … and drags him away, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:46</time>
<p>So that was kinda his reputation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:47</time>
<p>Yeah, it's very lawless- Yeah … yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:49</time>
<p>And so it is very much this, uh, violent, physical time, and you get all these</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:56</time>
<p>men in Deadwood, and it becomes, like, you're governed by yourself, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:01</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:02</time>
<p>And, and, it, that's kind of w- I, I think that's kind of why he had this mystique</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:06</time>
<p>about him, because he was a lawman.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:09</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:09</time>
<p>He had that reputation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:11</time>
<p>And actually, again, when I was making the video, I read that he</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:16</time>
<p>had earned this reputation early as a marshal, 'cause he was, I guess,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:20</time>
<p>supposedly one of the first, um, ones to kinda have this quick, quick draw-</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:25</time>
<p>Mm-hmm</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:26</time>
<p>… shootout.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:26</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:27</time>
<p>You know, like, standing in the middle- Just get it done</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:29</time>
<p>of the street, just, like, get it done, like a quick draw.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:30</time>
<p>Like, he was one of the first, supposedly- Mm-hmm … um, to, to do that, and to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:33</time>
<p>kinda have that- You know, established arou- you know- Sure … arou- around</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:38</time>
<p>him and his re- his reputation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:40</time>
<p>I'm a dead man walking.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:40</time>
<p>Can't you spare one more?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:41</time>
<p>I gotta look pretty when I'm</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:46</time>
<p>knocking down heaven's door.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:48</time>
<p>I'm a dead man walking.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:50</time>
<p>I'm a dead man walking.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:51</time>
<p>I'm a dead man.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:55</time>
<p>So he's in Deadwood.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:57</time>
<p>We've established he gets married in March of 1876 in Cheyenne, makes</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:02</time>
<p>it to Laramie about June, takes the wagon train up to Deadwood from</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:08</time>
<p>Laramie, Wyoming, to Deadwood, South Dakota, and he gets there about July.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:14</time>
<p>So again, not very long time because August 1st is when all these things</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:20</time>
<p>will start to happen for Hickok.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:23</time>
<p>So it's August 1st, 17 or 1876, where he's at Saloon 10.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:29</time>
<p>Now, in the video, and if you visit Deadwood, there's,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:33</time>
<p>there's a little discrepancy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
<p>So the location of Saloon 10 is still there, but it's not Saloon 10 anymore.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:44</time>
<p>But the actual location where Hickok was playing cards is there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:48</time>
<p>Now, Saloon 10 had burned at one point, and the owners had moved the location</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:55</time>
<p>across the street and further down but still kept a lot of the furniture-</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:59</time>
<p>Yeah, the chair</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:00</time>
<p>and the, the decorum-</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
<p>Yep</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
<p>… from the decorations and stuff from what the saloon looked like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
<p>So you can go to the S- Saloon 10, which is not the location, and see</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:12</time>
<p>the chair where Hickok was, uh, murdered, and you can see what the…</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:16</time>
<p>what it would, what it looked like, what the saloon would've looked like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:19</time>
<p>And then you can go further down the street to the actual location.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:22</time>
<p>Yeah, and I think the name of that place was, like, Wild Bill Bar</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:25</time>
<p>or- Yes … something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:25</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:26</time>
<p>So th- that's the difference between the two.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:28</time>
<p>But so what's happening is August 1st, he's playing poker in Saloon 10.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:33</time>
<p>Poker was his game.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:34</time>
<p>And he's… The seat opens up, and a Jack McCall sits to play poker with him, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:40</time>
<p>during the, the session, McCall loses a lot, and Hickok encourages him to quit.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:49</time>
<p>"Quit now. Try to go make some money to pay us what you owe us." And he</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:54</time>
<p>gives him money for breakfast the next morning 'cause he's basically used</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:57</time>
<p>all his money, and people claim, or historians claim, that insulted McCall.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
<p>So</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:04</time>
<p>he was insulted by him giving him basically, you know, um-</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:09</time>
<p>Like charity money</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:09</time>
<p>charity money.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:11</time>
<p>And so the next day- Same location, so August 2nd, H- Hickok walks into the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:19</time>
<p>same saloon to play poker, and the only seat open has its back to the door.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:23</time>
<p>And Hickok, being, being a lawman, doesn't want to sit with his back to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:27</time>
<p>the door, but he wants to play poker.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:28</time>
<p>It's his game.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:30</time>
<p>So he sits there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:30</time>
<p>He actually asks a couple guys he's playing poker with if they would</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:33</time>
<p>change seats with him, but, and if you know anything about poker,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:35</time>
<p>it's bad luck to change your seat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:38</time>
<p>So they refuse.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:39</time>
<p>So he's playing, and, um, that's when McCall will walk into the bar and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
<p>shout something at him and just shoot him point-blank range right against</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:49</time>
<p>the head, and he kills him instantly</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:55</time>
<p>Dead man walking</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:04</time>
<p>And the bullet actually goes through Hickok's head into the gentleman</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:07</time>
<p>he's playing poker with- Yeah, that's right … into his arm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
<p>And that gentleman will keep the bullet in his arm for his rest of his life.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:13</time>
<p>Holy cow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:13</time>
<p>And he's a, um, he's like a, a captain of a steamboat, of the, the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:19</time>
<p>paddle boats, and he would walk into bars saying, "Now, here comes the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:23</time>
<p>bullet that killed, uh, Bill Hickok."</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:26</time>
<p>Of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:26</time>
<p>course, yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:26</time>
<p>If you're a ship captain- Yeah … of like a riverboat- Yeah … or</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:28</time>
<p>something like that- And you're like- … you're like, "Here's my story."</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:30</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:31</time>
<p>You know?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:31</time>
<p>"Here comes the bullet." So McCall- Knows, knows he's done something bad, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:37</time>
<p>And, uh, and of course, the dead man's hand.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:39</time>
<p>So Hickok and his hand is holding aces and eights, black aces and eights.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:44</time>
<p>And they don't know what the whole card is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:46</time>
<p>That's what the fifth card is, and there's speculation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:48</time>
<p>You'll see some places have the nine of diamonds, and, but that's… No one's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:52</time>
<p>really sure what the fifth card is, but that's the hand he has when he's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:56</time>
<p>killed, so it's called the dead man's hand, and we show it in the video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:59</time>
<p>And sometimes when you go to his grave, people have left those cards.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
<p>And actually, when we were</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
<p>there, they had left</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:03</time>
<p>it there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:03</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:04</time>
<p>So McCall runs out of the saloon and tries to jump on a horse, and we</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:08</time>
<p>talk about this, that most horses, if you're tying up your horse to go</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:12</time>
<p>in somewhere, you're gonna loosen the saddle, 'cause you're not gonna cinch</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:17</time>
<p>a saddle on a horse and for it to rest.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:19</time>
<p>So when he jumps on, the horse's saddle just falls right off.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:22</time>
<p>And then he runs down the street to the butcher shop, and we, we show that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:25</time>
<p>There's a… And he hides in the cooler basically there, and they find him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:30</time>
<p>They pull him out of there, and they actually do the trial in the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:34</time>
<p>same place where Hickok is shot.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:36</time>
<p>Yeah, I was kinda surprised with s- such a lawless place.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:39</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:39</time>
<p>You know, I assumed there must have been other lawmen, you know, in the,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:42</time>
<p>in the city or something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:43</time>
<p>He probably wasn't, he probably wasn't the only one.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:45</time>
<p>You, we don't really know.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:46</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:46</time>
<p>It, well, they don't really… I mean, it's an informal miners' jury.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:51</time>
<p>They get the miners, the guys who are there, to stand a jury.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:54</time>
<p>So, and it, and it can't really be a trial because it's not really a territory.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:58</time>
<p>It's, it's lawless.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:59</time>
<p>It's lawless.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:00</time>
<p>It's, it's a, it's Indian land.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:01</time>
<p>It's a reservation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:03</time>
<p>It's not… It belongs to the American Indians, so it's not, it can't be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:07</time>
<p>governed, basically, so you can't really hold a trial, but they do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:12</time>
<p>And McCall claims that when Hickok was a marshal in Abilene, Kansas,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:21</time>
<p>again, I told you that name would come up, that Hickok killed his brother.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:25</time>
<p>Now, there is a record of a McCall being killed in Abilene, Kansas, by a lawman.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:30</time>
<p>Oh, really?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:31</time>
<p>They don't claim that it's Hickok.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:33</time>
<p>It just says lawman.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:34</time>
<p>It, the, the records aren't that clear.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:36</time>
<p>But there is a McCall that is killed earlier, uh, by a lawman.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:41</time>
<p>And it, it's not even clear if that's his brother, but the name matches up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:45</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:45</time>
<p>Now, now they, they didn't know this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:47</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:47</time>
<p>The, the miners hear this story, and the miners are very much, again, this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:52</time>
<p>lawlessness of the West, where you govern yourself and you're very much</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:55</time>
<p>eye for an eye type of mentality.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:59</time>
<p>So they let him off, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:01</time>
<p>You think about someone who killed your brother- They deserve to,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:06</time>
<p>to whatever they get from you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:08</time>
<p>And so the miners are like, "Oh yeah, you're totally validated in what you did.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:12</time>
<p>You're free to go." But McCall gets out of town relatively quickly because people</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:16</time>
<p>are upset, because people like Hickok, including Charlie, uh, Charlie Utter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:20</time>
<p>And Charlie Utter is the gentleman who, they'll, they'll</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:24</time>
<p>bury Hickok the very next day.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:25</time>
<p>He's not buried at Fort, uh, at Mount Moriah Cemetery, where</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:29</time>
<p>we visited his grave today.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:31</time>
<p>He's, he's buried at a closer cemetery to the location of Main Street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:35</time>
<p>But as the city grows- Oh,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:37</time>
<p>they move him</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:38</time>
<p>… they move the cemetery about three years later in 1879, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:43</time>
<p>on, on the day of his death.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:45</time>
<p>But Charlie Utter will cut that original tombstone, and it'll say,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:49</time>
<p>it says, almost looks like clutter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:51</time>
<p>No, it's C-H.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:52</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:53</time>
<p>Yeah, shutter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:54</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:54</time>
<p>Um, but um, he also invites everyone back to his camp for</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:59</time>
<p>the funeral, and it's almost like everybody from the town shows up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:03</time>
<p>Because again, wagon train, he has a camp that he's established,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:05</time>
<p>and so everyone comes there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:07</time>
<p>And he considered him a friend, and so he's the one who will pay for the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:11</time>
<p>funeral and then pay for the tombstone.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:13</time>
<p>And McCall gets out of the area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:15</time>
<p>Well, he ends up back around Fort Laramie, and he's running his</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:18</time>
<p>mouth that he killed a US marshal.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:21</time>
<p>He killed Bill Hickok.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:24</time>
<p>And a, an actual US marshal is listening to him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:29</time>
<p>And again, you have this loyalty of even with the lawlessness, you have this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:33</time>
<p>loyalty between marshals that we know how difficult this job is for us to do, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:37</time>
<p>here you are running your mouth that you killed one of the most famous US marshals.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:41</time>
<p>So he takes him to Dakota territory, a place that's actually</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:45</time>
<p>run by the federal government.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:46</time>
<p>It's Yankton, Dakota Territory, and he puts him on trial.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:51</time>
<p>So it doesn't really hit that double jeopardy, since the first</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:55</time>
<p>trial wasn't an actual trial.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:20:57</time>
<p>And, uh, Hickok's brother comes to town to hear the testimony, and he's found guilty,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:04</time>
<p>and he's hanged the very next day after he's found guilty on March 1st, 1877.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:09</time>
<p>That's, it's so funny to me that, you know, if you, you almost couldn't</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:13</time>
<p>script a story like this, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:16</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:16</time>
<p>And for us, you know, in the, the American culture, you know, th-</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:19</time>
<p>this, this story is part of kind of that Wild West story that we learn</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:23</time>
<p>growing up and everything like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:25</time>
<p>And you, you almost, again, you couldn't script a more predictable bad guy, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:30</time>
<p>Someone who just kind of gets away with murder, literally, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:33</time>
<p>then is off running his mouth.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:34</time>
<p>Like, they, they write that into movies all the time, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:37</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:37</time>
<p>And they do that because people actually do that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:39</time>
<p>And you know, this guy wasn't the most intelligent person.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:42</time>
<p>Obviously, if he would've just kept his mouth shut, he probably</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:44</time>
<p>could've lived a very long life- Sure</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:46</time>
<p>and gotten away with it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:47</time>
<p>But he obviously was not the smart guy, especially to be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:51</time>
<p>losing at poker so, um, so badly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:21:59</time>
<p>We visit Hickok's grave.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:00</time>
<p>Right beside him is Calamity Jane.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:01</time>
<p>She'll die in 1903.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:03</time>
<p>Her dying wish is to be buried next to Wild Bill, because I think they had this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:07</time>
<p>close friendship and kinship, and, um, she really thinks fondly of Deadwood.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:13</time>
<p>And then right about two graves over from her is a very famous,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:18</time>
<p>uh, madam named Dora DuFran.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:21</time>
<p>And Dora DuFran runs the most profitable brothel in Deadwood.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:25</time>
<p>I- I think I saw, this was one of thing that I didn't notice the first</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:30</time>
<p>couple times when I was editing the video, and then finally I, I was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:34</time>
<p>looking at some of the signs, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:35</time>
<p>And, and they have in Deadwood on that main street where you're kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:38</time>
<p>of walking up and down doing most of the filming, they have signs.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:41</time>
<p>And basically, they're not quite historical markers, but they're like</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:44</time>
<p>the classic kind of wooden hanging sign- Mm-hmm … hanging from outside</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:47</time>
<p>of, of these historic locations.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:49</time>
<p>And so one, one wooden sign says, "This is the actual location where Wild Bill Hickok</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:53</time>
<p>was, was killed on August 2nd-" Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:22:55</time>
<p>"… 1876." You know, "Here's the spot where Jack McCall was captured."</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:00</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:00</time>
<p>And then they actually have another sign talking about one of the brothels.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:03</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:04</time>
<p>And but it said on there that it wasn't closed by, it wasn't closed</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:08</time>
<p>until 1980- I know … by the FBI.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:13</time>
<p>1980. That just, I was so caught off guard by that, that that was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:18</time>
<p>ar- around doing their thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:22</time>
<p>Come down from Shenandoah Mountain.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:28</time>
<p>Well, I feel like, so again, we talk about all these men coming into town,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:31</time>
<p>and these women come to service the men.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:34</time>
<p>And if the men are the ones who are upholding the law, but they're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:39</time>
<p>also partaking of a brothel- Sure … then they're gonna turn a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:42</time>
<p>blind eye to it for a very long time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:45</time>
<p>Yeah, I, I would, I just, there was just a funny aside that just really surprised</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:50</time>
<p>me, and I don't think most people would notice it if they're watching the video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:53</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:53</time>
<p>But if you look in the video, you can see that it was… It, it just</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:23:56</time>
<p>says, "Closed '80," right, by the FBI.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:00</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:01</time>
<p>Um, which was just, I thought was hilarious.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:03</time>
<p>Well, DuFran is also credited with the term cathouse.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:07</time>
<p>Oh, really?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:08</time>
<p>So she had a bunch of cats brought in on a wagon train, because the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:13</time>
<p>women who worked in her brothel were getting scared of the rats.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:18</time>
<p>And they were getting very s- upset, and so they wouldn't do their job.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:22</time>
<p>And so she brought in cats to get the rats.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:24:25</time>
<p>And so the men knew the cathouse.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Oh, interesting.</p>
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<p>They wanted to go visit the cathouse, that had, like, 12, 15 cats there,</p>
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<p>who were taking care of all the rats.</p>
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<p>And that's where you get the term cathouse.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>I d- I don't, I don't think I knew that.</p>
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<p>I don't think I had that in the video either.</p>
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<p>So it's a little podcast, uh, special for- Yeah … for our listeners.</p>
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<p>And it makes sense.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And I try to call you in the night</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Just to see if my voice could reach those peaks</p>
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<p>And so if you're wondering more about Deadwood, in 1877, you know, the US</p>
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<p>government tries to like, "Ah, what can we do to kinda capitalize on this gold</p>
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<p>that's being found here?" And they kinda modify the Treaty of Fort Laramie, and,</p>
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<p>and the, the Lakotas never adhere to it.</p>
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<p>And even today, they brought a trial against the US government in 18- in 1980,</p>
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<p>and they cited the original treaty saying that, "This is our land and you took it."</p>
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<p>And so the US government tried to pay them a billion dollars for it, and the Lakotas</p>
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<p>won't take it because they want the land.</p>
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<p>That money sits in a s- a savings account today for the Lakota people, which they</p>
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<p>refuse to touch it because that land belongs to them, and they want the land.</p>
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<p>Wow.</p>
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<p>And now so many people live there.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>Like, we even visited there, and it is part of, you know,</p>
<p></p>
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<p>it, it's adhered to by a state-</p>
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<p>Well- … government … and if, and if you're listening, right,</p>
<p></p>
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<p>so the Black Hills area, right, if you're, if you're not familiar with</p>
<p></p>
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<p>the South Dakota area, and I wasn't really until we spent some time.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>We spent a few days there- Mm-hmm</p>
<p></p>
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<p>with, you know, for a little, uh, we had a little family reunion.</p>
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<p>But that's right near Mount Rushmore.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>That's Crazy Horse, which we'll talk about in fut- Mm-hmm … in upcoming episodes.</p>
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<p>So there's a whole lot in that area, and it's, and it's gorgeous.</p>
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<p>It's a beautiful area out there.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>It's, it's absolutely beautiful, and you can see why they want the land.</p>
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<p>And I, I think there could be some compromise being that the land belongs,</p>
<p></p>
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<p>because you can still visit, B- Bighorn is on a Indian reservation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Badlands is on an Indian reservation, and they still u- use it, you know,</p>
<p></p>
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<p>for people to visit, and they can still make a profit off of still</p>
<p></p>
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<p>keeping this, you know, this land, um, protected for their use of their tribe.</p>
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<p>So I think there could be something you could adhere to.</p>
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<p>But, um, what happens in 1879 in this is a big fire in Deadwood, and most</p>
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<p>people have not made huge fortunes.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>They've been there for, like, four years by then, and so most people leave.</p>
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<p>And the people who stay are people who are established in the town.</p>
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<p>And it has, it, it, and it, even today there's a couple thousand people</p>
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<p>who live there, and, um, and it, it's still, I think it's the tourism</p>
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<p>is really what drives the town.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>But it never is gonna hit that big heyday that it had there in the 1870s.</p>
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<p>But it was a very cool place to visit, and, uh, Hickok is the</p>
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<p>story there if you go there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So you definitely wanna go down Main Street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It's the historic Main Street, and you definitely wanna go</p>
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<p>to Mount Moriah Cemetery.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Yeah, and they have, they have tour buses that'll take you up to the cemetery,</p>
<p></p>
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<p>'cause it's up a very steep hill.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>That is not one you're gonna walk from Main Street up to the cemetery.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It's-</p>
<p></p>
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<p>They'll try to tell you you can walk.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Don't do it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>Don't do it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>I mean, it's steep even sitting in a car Um, so but yeah, it was an absolute blast.</p>
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<p>It's a gorgeous area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>It really did get, for me, kind of to that inner child, you know, just kind</p>
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<p>of little bit of excitement there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>And we had our whole family with us.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>We had our family, they were kind of watching us film because, you</p>
<p></p>
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<p>know, that was kind of just a topic, so they were enjoying that.</p>
<p></p>
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<p>And as we look back at, you know, Wild Bill Hickok's life has been romanticized</p>
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<p>and immortalized in various books, movies, legends, and even this podcast.</p>
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<p>He remains an enduring symbol of the American Wild West and is remembered</p>
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<p>for his remarkable marksmanship, daring adventures, and a tragic end that befell</p>
<p></p>
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<p>many legendary figures of the era.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So thank you so much for listening to the Talk With History podcast.</p>
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<p>Please reach out to us over at talkwithhistory.com.</p>
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<p>this, share this with them.</p>
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<p>If they're a Wild West fan, if they're, they're a cowboy fan,</p>
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<p>they're gonna love this podcast.</p>
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<time>00:28:55</time>
<p>We have another podcast similar to this where we talk about Buffalo Bill Cody.</p>
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<p>We have more like this coming up.</p>
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<p>We're gonna be talking about Little Bighorn, so you- if you're listening to</p>
<p></p>
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<p>this in the future, look those episodes up because I'm sure you'll enjoy them.</p>
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<p>We rely on you, our community, to grow, and we appreciate, we</p>
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<p>appreciate you all every day.</p>
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<p>We'll talk to you next time.</p>
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<p>Thank you.</p>
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