Deadwood in 1877 (Eyewitness Account)

Deadwood is famous for a lot of reasons: the death of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock, and a successful series on HBO, to name but a few. But what was Deadwood like for the average person who visited it? How did it feel to be in the gold mining camp of Deadwood in the 1870s? In this video we discuss a newspaperman who visited Deadwood in 1877, who he met, what was the news there, and what the town was really like.