Deadwood, SD Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

One of the West's wildest Gold Rush towns, DEADWOOD , in a deep gulch high in the hills 42 miles northwest of Rapid City, has the rare accolade of being a National Historic Landmark in its entirety. Within a year of the discovery of gold here in 1876, six thousand gold-diggers had swarmed in to stake their claims; con artists, outlaws and other dubious frontier types were not far behind. Among them were James Butler, aka Wild Bill Hickok – sometime spy, scout, bullwhacker, stagecoach driver, sheriff and gambler, who spent only a few weeks in Deadwood prior to his murder by a young drifter named Jack McCall … more »