After the TOWER, we headed through Spearfish and onto Deadwood, SD. In the 1870's was the site of the last big gold rush in North America. In fact, in Deadwood on upper main street you can still take a tour of the Broken Boot gold mine. Fueled by gold, Deadwood became a lawless camp of get-rich prospectors and a business district largely of saloons, dance halls, card palors, and bordellos. Then came frontier legends like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane who lived and died in Deadwood and are buried in the local cemetary. Today, it is designated as a National Historic District. Our first impression arriving in Deadwood, which was set deep withing the mountains of the Black Hills is a very western, wild, casino filled, and Harley's. It is still a rough, dusty, dirty authentic western town. It is a mecca for gamblers and it was interesting to see the variety of people in town. Kevin Costner has left his trademark after "Dancing With Wolves" and owns an entire building which is filled with movie memorbilia of his past. He also has a an attraction called "Tatanka", which is the story of the bison and a huge sculptural reinactment of a "Buffalo Jump". Not being gamblers, we walked around the town for awhile, ate dinner in town, and took the trolley back to Whistler's Gulch where we were spending the night with TREK.
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