Real History of Deadwood 

I’m from Spearfish SD, Deadwood is our county seat. So much crazy history in that area. I feel honored watching this ngl. Much love Weird History!

Deadwood is in my top three or four best HBO series of all time, one of the few moments in TV or film that made me cry was the preacher…. Ah so frustrating they cancelled it so soon back in the day

"No evidence that people were fed to pigs" ME: Isn't that the point?

The actual town of Deadwood is amazing! 3 1/2 hour drive for me but it's a 4-5 time a year trip. So much to do, definitely a must see for anyone!

Just finished watching Deadwood for the first time and I gotta say that it is one of the best shows/content I’ve seen so far in my life. The show is great and it is a crime that it only lasted 3 seasons. And what a coincidence that this video came out as I finished it.

A ancestor of mine rode with Seth Bullock as a deputy Marshall and was in the same unit in the Spanish American War but changed units shortly after.

I know Deadwood had to follow history to a point (like Swearingen, Bullock, and others couldn't die), but I'd have made an exception and blown away Hearst, lol. Deadwood was a great series. If you can get over the language and violence, it's worth the watch!

0:01 My brother, his girlfriend, his friends, and I went to Deadwood, South Dakota for a snowboarding trip in 2002. We drove there in a van and stayed downtown across from the casinos. It was an amazing fall trip!

I highly recommend anyone visit Deadwood. Especially if you're a history buff. It's like stepping into the past. You can FEEL the history. It's amazing. Very cool place.

This was great, thank you! Great timing as I am re-watching Deadwood right now! When HBO was at its best! This show is my top tier of television. Brad Dourif, as the Doc, thats just stellar acting right there!

I visited Deadwood, South Dakota myself with my family. It is a beautiful place and has a rich history. South Dakota is one such place I would recommend to anyone. 3:33

This was great! Deadwood is objectively one of the greatest shows of all time.

Weird History....The best of the BEST on RU-vid!

I was just in Deadwood last week. Great town to visit.

as a long time of resident of DwD - this is pretty accurate description of the town

Deadwood was the first western show or movie I ever enjoyed. Absolute masterpiece. I even road tripped to the actual Deadwood when I lived in Denver. I’ll never forget that trip and seeing Hickok’s grave!

This is neat. Fun fact. I am directly related to Al Swearengen! He’s my 8th great uncle on my dads side of the family ❤️

I first visited Deadwood in 1960, right after my 5th birthday, and again in 1970. It was a western tourist town back then, but sort of ramshackle in need of some spiffing up. My mother was born and raised in western South Dakota and attended school and worked in Rapid City/the Black Hills as a young adult. I heard all of the stories of the "Wild West" from her and my grandfather. He settled in South Dakota, along with my grandmother and other family members in the early 1900s. They homesteaded next to and then eventually moved to a town within the boundaries of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. My impression, from knowing my grandparents, my mother, and my aunt, I'm pretty sure modern curse words, if used back then, were NOT acceptable in mixed company or in public even in Deadwood.

“There is no evidence anyone was fed to pigs”. - that was kinda the point…

Love Deadwood: Great acting; great script writing, fantastic direction, inspired production. Watched each episode several times. Have the DVD set. Have Deadwood forever.

@6:12 The "Dead Man's Hand" is a hand of black Aces (ace of spades, Ace of clubs) and black 8s (8 of spades, 8 of clubs) and an unknown hole card. It was allegedly the hand Wild Bill Hickok held when he was murdered. (wikipedia).

Timothy olyphant is my all-time favorite actor!!!

Red Dead Redemption 2 is The Video Game version of Deadwood

Pretty sure milch specifically said they mostly likely cursed like Yosemite sam back then but he opted to update the language cause the old way would've sounded too silly for a modern hbo drama

The fight between Dan and Joe is my favorite silver screen fight to this day.

Deadwood is one hell of a fun place today.

I've been to Deadwood. It is so cool. I was too young to remember the enactment of Wild Bill's death.

A+ video! Awesome history of the tv series and settlement, I'll have to check out the series!

If you ever go to Deadwood (and I'd suggest it, including all of the Black Hills, including Mt Rushmore, Custer State Park, Devil's Tower, etc), DO NOT GO DURING THE STURGIS MOTORCYCLE RALLY, unless you're aim is to go to the rally. Motorcycles will outnumber cars 20 to 1 or more. All hotel rooms will be gone. Every town/business will be catering to the bikers. There will even be places and towns that are closed to cars. Yes, I was there during the rally by accident. Just avoid the rally, the week before and after. Otherwise, the Black Hills is a terrific place to visit! 😁

Well Done Love the HBO Show Love your clarification of the history of Dead Wood ❤

"There's no evidence anyone was fed to pigs." Yeah... that's the point.

I was born in Rapid City and spent part of my early childhood in Spearfish, just 15 miles north of Deadwood. Every summer my father would take me and my sister into Deadwood for the Deadwood Days celebration. I have seen the re-enactment of the assassination of Wild Bill Hickock about 5 times, and have been in the Aces and Eights saloon as an adult. It is a shame what has happened to that nice little town since gambling was legalized, it now too much like Las Vegas.

Great show, McShane's performance is awe inspiring. Never seen such a domineering character. The Black Hills is our favorite place to visit. As pretty as Yellowstone. Weird History is the best, thanks for sharing.

My great grandmother was a Moonshiner in Deadwood and ran a boarding house for the miner’s. The boarding house is STILL there to this day. (Although it is barely standing).

No evidence...? That's the idea of using pigs in the first place I thought...

Haven't watched Survivor in 20 years, but you put Al Swearengen on that show and I'm hooked.

Best show ever. 3 seasons and a full length feature film is all that was needed.

Great show. Thank you for posting this!

Haven't watched the show. I was IN Deadwood. Played 21 at Saloon 10. One of my best days (lost some money BUT worth it!). Beautiful sunny day great breakfast. Walked the streets smoking a cigar. Wouldn't want to be there in winter but BOY that was a delight!

I enjoyed this. This was a time in the American Wild West where gold was the thing and led to setting up of the town. Oh, Custer and Hickok were friends. Both died in 1876.

All the swearing in Deadwood made Scarface seem like a Disney film. 🤬 Great show.

That was a great series on HBO . Even drove out there a few years back . Pretty country

I love deadwood. Not the show, but the town.i spend 1 of every 3 weeks here now. You missed the point that the reason deadwood almost died is the government cracking down on prostitution. Gambling literally saved this town in the 80s.

I took a guided tour of Deadwood several years ago and asked the guide how accurate the HBO series was. He said somewhat accurate except that Bullock didn't arrive in Deadwood until after Hickock was already dead, which is unlike the show depicting them as friends. Great show, anyway!

Weird History, do one of Rosewood (Florida) They did a movie on that too

Could you imagine him working at your job? With that tone of voice? Awesomeness 😎

McHale's Navy is a historical episode worth exploring...

Thanks for the lesson on Deadwood

I actually visited Deadwood a couple of times...both times being during their "Days of '76" celebration. Surprised the bit about Wild Bill didn't mention the nickname given to the poker hand he was holding when he was shot: Both black Aces and both black Eights...known nowadays as the Dead Man's Hand because of Wild Bill's death. FUN FACT: In the TTRPG "Deadlands", the Dead Man's Hand holds great power. In earlier editions, the Dead Man's Hand (which also has the Jack of Diamonds as the fifth card) is considered the best hand possible, even beating out Five of a Kind. (Since Action Decks also had Jokers.) The most recent edition, however, just mentions the hand in regard to the Soul Blast hex, a spell that does damage. Drawing the Dead Man's Hand when calculating damage instantly kills the target instead of doing damage.

2:15 That also reminds me of the children's book The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (1989). In a 2012 poll by School Library Journal, it was voted as one of the "Top 100 Picture Books of All Time." (wikipedia)

This was great, I watched the series and I didn't know it was anywhere near this close to reality (also, awesome series btw)😁

Never watch TV myself. But I love history and this channel😊

Custer was a Col. his rank as a Major General was a temporary one while the Civil War was going on. After the war, her went back to his original rank before the war.

I expected WAY more bleeping in this one.

The opening scene of Citizen Kane has our aged and ailing Mr. Kane in bed, at death's door. He is holding a snowglobe. He moans the word "rosebud", drops the snowglobe and dies. The rest of the film is a reporter trying to find the meaning of "rosebud". Except when Mr. Kane died, there was no one in the room to hear him say the word. The biggest plot hole in movie history.

One of my top elite shows of all time! No question 🤘👏👏

If the question is: did they curse? Then the answer is yes. Did they use the words we use? Probably not exactly, but we don’t even use the same words in all English-speaking areas. This was really interesting! I really liked the focus on the real history while still connecting to the show!

Ian McShane is my fave actor of all time! And shout-out to the staff of Cadillac Jack's;

The Black Hills are illegally settled to this day. Don't make legal contracts if you're going to violate them. That's what's supposed to separate us from the animals isn't it? If you can't handle the heat, get outta the saloon.

I visited Deadwood while on vacation with my family back in the 80s. I'm sure it has gotten even more touristy since....just like Dodge City, KS. I have never watched the TV show (I don't have cable), so I can't say whether it was good or not.

I’m rewatching Justified right now and I’ve been eye balling Deadwood for a bit. Gotta check it out hahah

Milch actually said in an interview that he chose such graphic language because the language of the times was so tame itwoild not elicit the response from the audience needed to sell the scenes

I watch movies/shows just to watch Ian McShane after his role in Deadwood! So glad they did one on Deadwood!!

@3:27 I went to Deadwood, South Dakota (on a stop for our Pacific Northwest trip) where we just hung out downtown. I went to the casinos and played some black jack there.

My great-grandfather, George Carlow Cosgrove, lived in Deadwood during this period and allegedly was involved with Calamity Jane before he married my great-grandmother, Annetta Spencer, in 1888. He and Annetta had 8 children, the last of which was my grandmother, Florence Cosgrove (1904). Still a lot of Cosgroves/Cosgraves in the Rapid City area.

My grandparents and others in my family settled in Deadwood and Lead (where the Homestake was). My Irish Catholic grandmother was scandalized by the loose morals of the place. They finally moved to a small ranch near Spearfish. They made a living rounding up wild horses and breaking them and selling them to the army at Fort Meade.

Deadwood was a great show now I want to visit

We have been to Deadwood a few times, but after the city allowed gambling Deadwood lost it's old west appeal. Now it's flashing lights, bells and even the wooden sidewalks are gone.

“There was no evidence anyone was fed to pigs.” Wasn’t that the point?

We call him Major Dad!

been rewatching the series again perfect timing.

Good doc, I grew up just outside deadwood. One thing the black hills was not colonized that reference is for the colonial areas on east coast but gets over used. But in 70s earl 80s you could do the Chinese tunnel tours where the opium dens were, and in 1980 in junior high wood shop field trip was actually to go down and see the purple door (last house of illripute) shut down. Good times had the trial of jack mckall and reenactment of shooting of wild Bill ect. Most you could not get away with anymore.

Love that show.

The only series I rewatch in it's entirety every few years...

I would like to see a side by side in this style with the Hell on Wheels series from AMC I loved that show and would love to be educated! Keep up the great work!!!

Best TV series ever made. Prove me wrong!

Thank You! Well Done!

2:15 Reminds me of the music video "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly, hilarious video!

Some of the comments in this video are incorrect. There was no great fire in 1987, and the gold didn't play out in 1918. The Homestake Gold Mine in nearby Lead (pronounced "Leed"), was the largest gold mine in the western hemisphere for over 125 years. The Homestake Gold Mine was America's longest continuously operated gold mine. It closed in 2002 as the oldest, largest and deepest mine in the western hemisphere, stretching over 8,000 feet below the town of Lead.

Deadwood; a town of illegal squatters on Indian territory. A territory agreed via treaty, which, under the constitution is considered the ultimate law of the land. Except there was Gold. So the fed looked the other way, broke their treaty, moved the Rez, and in usual form, took what they wanted anyway….

Love this channel. So many good stories. Please can you bust some myths in relation to Romania especially Transylvanian life pre 1900 Dracula, cuisine, wine etc. thank you.

Deadwood was a lawless town when miners first showed up because it was Indian territory and US citizens werent suppose to be there. So it attracted lawbreakers to escape law and try their luck at getting rich.

I loved the Deadwood series and Swearingen is my favourite character. Citizen Kane wasn't exactly a polite telling of the Hearst legacy. we all know what Rosebud really was.

Bill described Jane's figure like " a loosened bale of hay!"

Teddy Roosevelt had a set of chompers on him.

Went to college in Spearfish in the 1960s, and probably spent too much time partying in Deadwood. This was back before gambling was legal. Note I said “was legal”, not “before gambling”.

I love westerns, but somehow never saw Deadwood. I did, however, see Hatfields & McCoys (starring Kevin Costner and the legendary Bill Paxton)-which I would highly recommend.

Custer was only a colonel not a general. General was his brevet or temporary rank during Civil War

I actually enjoyed Deadwood until the final season when people started losing their minds, and the dragons had, and ruined their final hurrah. I just pretend that Deadwood ended the season before its last. Dinklage is still my favorite cowboy.

Greatest Western ever!

Yay! I requested this in a comment and here it is! I'm so hyped.

Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal! This time eating a bowl of TRIX cereal (from the Weird History Food video "Why the 80s Was the Golden Age for Sugary Cereals")...while watching this Weird History video!

Milch pointed out (rightly) they didn't want miners sounding like Yosemite Sam if they used period correct foul language. I have no doubt it was harsh, period correct, profanity.

I remember at the time Deadwood was coming out reading a comment from someone to do with the show which said basically that they would have been saying stuff like "gulldarnit" which would seem incredibly genteel to a modern audience, so they used more modern swear words in the dialogue to create the same feel for a modern audience that it would have generated in the people at the time.

Calamity Jane is my spirit animal!

THANK YOU FOR SPELLING THE NAME RIGHT!! This is my maiden name and yes, I am related. All accurate and all wild!

Amazing serie, thanks for sharing

I think you stumbled upon a great video topic here; the weird history of swear words!

Warrior would be an interesting show to look into.

I am RE-watching Deadwood again now. I watched for the first time when it was still brand new and I can't believe how much I didn't understand. 😂