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Originally posted by johnny1
whats even great about this show is the reality of it...do a search on the history of deadwood...alot of these events really happened...wild bill was really killed there...and miss garet...man i'd be that bullock fellow i'd do her in a sec!
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Yes it is simi-historic.
I am a poker player and when wild bill was shot at the poker table his cards were Aces & 8's thats how the "Dead Mans Hand" was named.
I looked some stuff up online a few weeks back about a movie "the last samuri" and found out some info about Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane, c.1852-1903, American frontier character, b. Princeton, Mo. Her real name was Martha Jane Canary, and the origin of her nickname is obscure. Little is known of her early life beyond the fact that she moved with her parents to Virginia City, Mont., in 1865 and that she grew up in mining camps and rough frontier communities. In 1876 she appeared in Deadwood, S.Dak., dressed in men's clothes and boasting of her marksmanship and her exploits as a pony-express rider and as a scout with Custer's forces. In her later years she toured the West in a burlesque show and appeared at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. She died in poverty and obscurity in Deadwood, where she is buried beside Wild Bill Hickock.