Just a few miles south and over the hill from Spearfish, is Deadwood, SD. The town bills itself as "The Place where the Wild West Lives." The cobblestoned Main Street surely harkened back to an earlier time, but it did not make me think of the same wild west we saw a few years ago in Tombstone, AZ.
Of course, we could have watched a shootout re-enactment that might have provided more of a wild west flavor, but Sam is not a fan of gunfire so we avoided those.
I'm pretty sure I saw more than one place claiming to be the "Original Location" of Saloon No. 10 where Wild Bill Hickok was shot down in 1876. I was probably just confused.
It was always easy to identify depictions of Wild Bill with his long flowing mustache.
We will have to give Deadwood more time on our next visit to the Black Hills area, but we did not want to miss out on the rally fun, so we headed back early after barely scratching the surface of this interesting and historic tourist trap.
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