Less than an hour’s drive north of Rapid City, lies the town of Deadwood. In the 1870’s Deadwood Gulch was the site of the last frontier gold rush in North America. Fueled by gold and greed, Deadwood began as a lawless camp of get-rich-quick prospectors and a district comprised of largely saloons, dance halls, card parlours and bodacious bordellos!
Into this volatile mix came frontier legends like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, who lived and died in Deadwood. Today the whole town is a designated National Historic District.