The Black hills at Dakota's territory sacred grounds for the Lakota and one of the richest sections of land the world has ever known with easy color right for the taking the population of the Gold Rush town of Deadwood jumped from about 800 to over 10,000 as over a million dollars of gold was pulled from the ground between June and July of 1876 with no law no order and the Royal collection of inhabitants still recovering from the civil war there weren't enough pigs in Chinese not since the first signs of color have so many people flock to Deadwood only now they're tuning into that claimed HBO series of the same name but the cast of historically Rich characters the real dead would explore the lives of wild Bill and Hitchcock Alice wearing again calamity Jane soul star and a host of others and historical crossroad of the American West even came to Deadwood only to bump heads with Seth Bullock or the celebrated visitors over the years included Roosevelt looking at primitive medicine prostitution and law firm line assist the real Deadwood separates the facts from fiction and it's overview of a town violent enough to rival the likes of tombstone Dodge City and Abilene