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As someone who grew up in the area, I can safely add that Deadwood has a reputation for being the Las Vegas of South Dakota even in the present day. There is a main strip that has multiple fancy casinos and hotels. My parents took me to Deadwood many times to watch my mom's favorite Elvis impersonator. And I've driven through Deadwood and the Deadwood Gulch many times in my travels though the Black Hills. It's a strange mix of historical and gaudy. This definitely gives the town a unique character. I'm not much of a Casino goer, I've always been more interested in the historical aspects of the town.

I go through Deadwood every year on the way to Nemo. I love the Black Hills.

I know this city thanks to the documentary Lost Worlds on The History Channel. It's hard to believe that The History Channel has fallen so much since that time. I grew up watching Mail Call, Dogfights and Universe. I saw the golden era and I remember they made a special schedule for the Beijing Olympics. I really miss Mail Call.

3:20 - Chapter 1 - Founding a mining camp 6:55 - Chapter 2 - The town of deadwood 13:00 - Mid roll ads 14:30 - Chapter 3 - Al swearengen 20:00 - Chapter 4 - Seth bullock 23:55 - Conclusion

Once the Sioux attacked and murdered homesteaders in the early 1860s they voided all treaties imho.

After seeing the portraits of the actual people Deadwood (The series) portrayed, whoever did the casting for that show should have won an award. Spot on..

Keep up the Good work. Great presentation and mixture of pictures that flowed with the narrative.

Got that pan in my hand and a gleam in my eye

The Warner Bros. movie musical Calamity Jane (1953), starring Doris Day, was set in Deadwood city.

Love how you're shaping up, Eric 👍🏻 keep it up

Yeah, losing me without Simon

Nice thanks love your content maybe you could do one on tombstone or dodge city

Loved, loved, loved the HBO series. Ian McShane was mesmerizing.

I think Deadwood got its name from what happened to Wild Bill whenever he was around Calamity Jane

I grew up in Deadwood, we used to go to the top of my street and hike up into Mt. Moriah cemetery at night.

Awesome work on this video. :D The Wild West has a unique way of fueling the imagination. Probably because everyone wants to live in an era of exploration and discovery, but there is little left for us to explore on Earth today.

I am now on the west coast but I grew up in the Black Hills and will always consider them home 💜 Interesting video, thanks!

I First heard about Deadwood through the HBO series(One of the best series of all time). When i actually researched the town it's actually even more epic than presented(they took some artistic liberties). Ian McShane as Al Swearengen is one of the best characters in film.

Jack McCall. Top 5 coward of all times

Interesting, I read Swearengen died penniless and broke in SF but Denver makes more sense. Top10 shows of all time for me. I was so happy when they finally made the movie. They even brought back the same crew member to make it; camera, light, carps, audio, etc….

Enjoyed the video! For next time, "placer" (mining) rhymes with "passer," not "pacer." 🙂

Good stuff Eric. Was able to follow along nicely and it was easy to understand

Love your content guys! Please do agincourt

Haven’t seen any geographic videos in a while, what happened to Simon?

Been there. Very cool

Fun facts: Brothels actually operated (illegally) in Deadwood all the way up to 1980! Gambling was reintroduced/legalized in 1989. The original Deadwood city limits are the only place in South Dakota it's legal gamble on table games or sports other than Indian reservations.

Great show guys well written presented and edited keep up the brilliant work,

First heard of Deadwood thanks to the old Calamity Jane film with Doris Day 😅

I just found out this past weekend that my 4th great-grandfather Martin Crispell spent at least part of the 1880s in Deadwood. He was there in the 1880 census where he said he was a carpenter, attended a Masonic induction ceremony in 1884, and left town for medical reasons in February 1889. His family back home did have a letter from him in 1882 that he claimed to be in Gunnison, CO, another mining town, and was on his way to Salt Lake City, but who knows? After the Civil War ended, he appeared to be lost and adrift after serving three years and losing his oldest son in the last days of the war (he died from typhoid fever near the siege of Petersburg, VA on AprIl 18, 1865). He would go on years-long wanders and only occasionally write home to his wife and surviving children. When he left Deadwood, instead of returning home to New York, he went to the Old Soldiers Home in Milwaukee, where he died at the end of the year and was buried in the military cemetery there. A sad tale of what looks to me like severe PTSD.

Fun fact: six regulars on "Deadwood" guested on ":Lost".

You say open a can of peaches as I'm eating a can of pork n beans 😂😂. Out of the can like a heathen of course.

Amazing video, as always...maybe you could do the romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu on Biographics

That’s what I’m talking about my dude on the trifecta. I love the chick that runs these channels. Thank you for listening to us.

Great episode. My first time here. I've been to the Deadwood area. Thanks for sharing.

Can you make a video on Quake Lake in montana,USA from 1959?

Pretty cool place. Lots of history. Wife and I went there in 2015 and even stayed in the Bullock Hotel.

Loved this!

My thoughts as well from Dundee scotland

"They're more guide line then actual rules" - Hector Barbosa. Where is Simon?

If you have not seen the HBO series, you owe it to yourself to give it a watch. One of the finest series ever put on t.v. imo. The dialog is engaging, but be warned, the profanity and brutality are practically their own characters.

Deadwood motto"loose women tightened here".🤣🤣😂😂🤗🤗

Video from the basement looking up?

Great tv series too!!!

One thing i love about American history, particularly the Wild West is how it's old enough to be essentially alien to us today but still close enough to relate to. Having access to film is amazing, that closeness to real history. Also we have literal records and letters, newspapers and such as well as the word of mouth. Fascinating period and people.

Hello from Huron South Dakota 😊

Jack Langrishe married Jeannette Allen who was a Great Great Aunt of mine. She was a Great Granddaughter of Ethan Allen of Revolutionary war fame. Jack and Jeannette moved around the West for some time before winding up in the Silver Valley in Idaho. He was the first Representative from Ward er I believe to the first Idaho State Legislature. He may have been involved with the Idaho Territorial legislature. Jeannette had a much younger brother or Nephew named Lester Allen my Great Grandmother's Brother. He was a participant in the Johnson County, Wyoming Range War on the side of the small ranchers. Interesting group in a very interesting time.

I moved cross country a few years back and made a pit stop in deadwood. Definitely worth checking out.

No unauthorized cinnamon

smallwood should've done this one...

You should do tombstone and talk about Nelly Cashman

"Space Cowboy!" "He's bad, he's number one, He's a Space Cowboy with a laser gun 🔫 " 🎵🎹🎼

WRONG! See, I was on my horse when it threw the shoe and I got throwed off! And that caused me to bust a perfectly good bottle of fine Kentucky red-eye! So the way I figure it, blacksmith, you owe me five dollars for the whiskey and $75 dollars for the horse!

Am I having a Mande moment didn’t Simon whistler aka facts boy run this channel and biographics

Really enjoyed this

Your talking about a bed pan. Right

As someone who lived in deadwood, its cool to see it on the channel. Also, as someone who has lived here a long time, people should know that almost everyone out here hates the Sioux. Not because they are native, but because they are just absolutely rude and mean people, if anything being racist themselves. Other Native American tribes/nations even hate them because of it as well as their history. The Sioux kicked other tribes out of the hills and plains, so the fact they complain about the US is kinda hypocritical. I will say though, the US is in no way justified for the blatant genocide of unarmed Native Americans. Sad to say, how the US handled the push west, was hitlers inspiration. So we have a very dark past but I just figured that I would share a first person view of things out here.

luv this

Wow. Charlie Utter left Deadwood for Panama..

Bravo ! ❤

I've thrown up In the parking lot of the visitor center here plenty of times, it is definitely a fun town to cut loose in lol

Not quite the charismatic tornado that Simon is, but he’s growing on me.

Pan in my hand and a gleam in my eye 😂

What happened to Simon Whistler?

Where’s that’s bald 👩‍🦲 guy 😂

Simon just makes these channels and sells em kinda forgets about us sadd mann

I by the mic 🎤 not working 😂

One the the greatest shows on HBO. (Sopranos being The best)

Beautiful area. We went through Dead Wood while at Sturgis rally. Would love to go back, not during the rally.😂

Haven't been watching what happened to Simon?

Placer is pronounxed "plasser" when referring to the type of mining.

WTF where’s Simon

Many say that dead man’s hand has changed over time and is probably bs.

I've been there twice 46 years apart

Yay the good host!

Wow Simon, you look different 😅

Miss Simon

So keeps does regrow hair but also changes your voice?

'Placer'- its pronounced 'plasser'.

Thank you for speaking about prostitution.

Something to me says they made the city in national landmark to really upset the natives that they never let back on the land.

Interesting

Who is this guy??

Where the hell is simon

What do you mean by “technically” belonged to them?

The town right next door is called lead.. As in the heavy metal, not as in "the front of the pack"... That kinda comes under "no sht sherlock".

Everyone keeps talking about the astriod that wiped out the dinosaurs they never talk about the one that happened 1 million years later that was the largest of all astriod hits twice the size. Please do a video of it.

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The Natives didn't ignore the deadline. The deadline was in January, and it was impossible for them to travel at all in the dead of the Plains winter. The government did that deliberately.

It was progress. Change. Of course someone's going to have to be a little somebody

But, but but ... the show showed ...

Landback.

I love how you completely just skipped over how brutal the Sioux was to the crow and snake Indians and how the would massacre them and rape the women. They were absolutely HORRIBLE people and they lost in the end. All land is conquered!!!!! All land is won or lost. I do not feel bad for the losers

Simon given up on his actual good channels hey?

Missing that bald Brit. Just found it easier to start interested. Maybe it’s the accent, don’t know.

Was looking forward to hearing about Deadwood but had to inject politics into it.

What happened to Karl?

Wtf happened to Simon man he's the best thi dude makes me sleep where is the enthusiasm at sad day

I don't mind the new guys. But what happened with Simon?

I guess it's been awhile since I've watched a new geographic upload. Yikes