Day 36
06/05/18
We took off this morning for Deadwood. And on the way we stopped at Tatanka. I museum totally funded and created by Kevin Costner, of "Dances with Wolves." It is a museum dedicated to the buffalo and their story. Sue spent an hour and a half walking thru the exhibit and listening to Native Americans talking about the buffalo and how they used every part of them. An interesting fact was how the name "red men" was given to denote a Native American. It seems that the hills are made up of iron minerals that the Native American's smeared over their bodies as a type of sun screen. So when the first white men came upon them they called them "red men." Never knew that.
The on to Deadwood. I guess this prairie town's fame is because Wild Bill Hickok was shot there in 1878. The buildings are original architecture and fully two streets have old hotels, shops, and saloons. They are well preserved and lots of shops to buy "stuff" in.
Finally we drove a few blocks out of town to Mt. Moriah cemetery or "Boot Hill." It contains the grave of Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and others of cowboy notoriety. It was surprising to me how large the cemetery was. Deadwood is really out in the hinterlands and evidently many people lived and died there over the last couple of hundred years.
Here is a pic of Bill Hickoks grave with Calamity Janes right next to him.
06/05/18
We took off this morning for Deadwood. And on the way we stopped at Tatanka. I museum totally funded and created by Kevin Costner, of "Dances with Wolves." It is a museum dedicated to the buffalo and their story. Sue spent an hour and a half walking thru the exhibit and listening to Native Americans talking about the buffalo and how they used every part of them. An interesting fact was how the name "red men" was given to denote a Native American. It seems that the hills are made up of iron minerals that the Native American's smeared over their bodies as a type of sun screen. So when the first white men came upon them they called them "red men." Never knew that.
The on to Deadwood. I guess this prairie town's fame is because Wild Bill Hickok was shot there in 1878. The buildings are original architecture and fully two streets have old hotels, shops, and saloons. They are well preserved and lots of shops to buy "stuff" in.
Finally we drove a few blocks out of town to Mt. Moriah cemetery or "Boot Hill." It contains the grave of Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and others of cowboy notoriety. It was surprising to me how large the cemetery was. Deadwood is really out in the hinterlands and evidently many people lived and died there over the last couple of hundred years.
Here is a pic of Bill Hickoks grave with Calamity Janes right next to him.
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