A popular Deadwood historic bar has been named one of the best in the country. Here's what you need to know before you go.

Accomplished historian Peter Cozzens latest book focuses on Deadwood, South Dakota between 1876 and 1879. He says those who ...

Wild Bill Hickok, dead for 113 years, had a lot to do with it legalization. The day Hickok died, he was playing five-card stud at the Nuttal and Mann’s Saloon.

According to the Black Hills Pioneer (Deadwood Dakota's only newspaper) on August 5th, 1876: "On Wednesday about 3 o'clock the report stated that J.B. Hickok (Wild Bill) was killed.

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Wild Bill Hickok's present-day gravesite in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood, SD Courtesy Flickr user Travis S. Always sit with your back to the wall. Always. And especially in the American Old West.

“ Wild Bill Hickok is as big an icon of the Old West as there is,” he said. “Anything in our field that’s associated with somebody who’s famous gives a whole new value to the item.” ...

USA TODAY Network food journalists around the country named 29 of the best bars in the U.S., including this one in South Dakota.

While the possibility of Wild Bill Hickok having some involvement in a baseball game in Kansas City in the 1860s or ’70s cannot be completely ruled out, the research suggests that the umpiring ...

Niagara Falls is where Wild Bill Hickok dared to be an actor, a showman, and realized it was not for him. But he tried…and was trying on his financiers as well. Wild Bill Hickok met Henry M ...

And Wild Bill changed. Williams was apparently the last man Hickok ever killed. Hickok simply stopped killing. Normal for most people, true—but this was Hickok. And then he fell madly in love— ...