Deadwood

Setting

Deadwood, Dakota Territories, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace.

Main Character

Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards.

Town Description

But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepreneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane.

Theme

Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.