Wouldn't Trade Old Deadwood City for the Whole of Illinois

So I didn't see the Deadwood show on HBO (or Showtime?  Dunno) so my cultural reference for Deadwood is the aforementioned Calamity Jane.

We rolled into Deadwood, and visited the Adams museum, where we saw many cool artifacts, including the lovely PROSTITUTE SHOES pictured below.  How many of you have similar shoes?  I think they're kind of cute.  Anyway, Will Bill Hickok himself was born in Illinois (as James Butler Hickok) and then went West (as a fugitive) after doing some naughty things, and ironically became a lawman, fought in the Civil War (Union) and then became the man of legend, gambler, scout, marksman, etc.  He was shot whilst gambling in a local saloon by Jack McCall, who faced a "miner's trial," and got off on a technicality, but then went off and bragged about the killing, was retried, and hung.  Tough break, Jack.

Unlike in the movie, Hickok and Calamity Jane were not married, but were maybe buds (she said they were married, actually, and that he had fathered her child, but that's probably a fabrication) and she wanted to lead the mob to hang McCall at the original trial, but she was in custody herself at the time.  Calamity Jane was a rad frontierswoman who was a scout, and could roll with the toughest men, and she was revered for her kindness after nursing the victims of a small pox epidemic in 1876.

Jane's wish was to be buried next to Wild Bill, and so she was interred next to him here at Mt Moriah Cemetery.  One record claims that it's a final joke on Mr. Hickok, who some say wasn't a huge fan of the carousing Calamity Jane.  Either way, it's not a bad final resting place.