

Bollock is the typical entrepreneur, in real Deadwood he was sherif. “Pilot” shows the characters of Deadwood to be rowdy and tough concurs. Other fictional characters may not be based on Real Deadwood’s ancestors, but portrayed them to the tee. According to the site, Seth Bullock, Calamity Jane, and Wild Bill Hickock were all real Deadwood campers. Deadwood accurately shows the typical people who made camp in Deadwood some of them based on non-fictional people.

Many secretly swamped the Hills and soon camp was formed. But, as the show depicts, it was hard to keep gold prospectors out of the rich Black Hills. Sure enough, The Treaty of Fort Laramie forbid settlements in Real Deadwood in order to protect the Lakota-Sioux land. In the pilot show, Deadwood, South Dakota is an introduced as an illegal settlement.
