Deadwood, SD
Our next stop of the day was Deadwood, South Dakota. We were on the hunt for the saloon where Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back. This is famous for the game of poker because the hand he was holding, all black aces and eights (the saloon showed a red queen), is known as "the dead man's hand". At the time the saloon was called the Nuttal and Mann's Saloon, it is now called Number 10 Saloon.
Inside the saloon, the wait staff was not very friendly. If they had chatted us up about the history of the saloon, we might have stayed and ate and had a drink. But we just walked around, read the interesting tidbits on the wall and took pictures. There was all kinds of good memorabilia on the walls. The stupid part is they had the chair that he was sitting in at the time of his death hiding. So for all of the Old West fans out there, when you walk in the door, look at the post in front of you and you will see the hand that he had. Then take four paces, do an about face...do the hokey pokey....turn yourself around and look up over the door. There in a tiny cubby hole is his chair!
The moral of this story is we ended up eating at Dairy Queen where the young lady was friendly and gave me a medium cup of soft serve (my favorite) and only charged me for a small blizzard!
Our next stop was the Adams Museum in Deadwood. There was all kinds of historical artifacts from the history of Deadwood and the surrounding area.
I took a picture of this table top because I thought it makes a good quilt pattern!
Our final stop in Deadwood was the Mount Moriah Cemetery. Here is where Wild Bill, Calamity Jane and other old west figures are buried. It was a very hilly walk but what a beautiful cemetery!
This flag is never lowered. Mount Moriarty was given special permission by Congress during WW I to always fly the flag to honor all veterans and those who died serving our country. (You'll have to excuse my finger.)
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