so I at Wild Bills gravesite and Calamity Jane who's right next to him and
I keep getting the smell of cigarette smoking and there's nobody else here but
mr. martini and I and we don't smoke so
coming in from somewhere and I don't know where
so what a lot of people don't realize when they watch the series Deadwood on
HBO is there really is the town of Deadwood and it's a very famous town and
I'm here now in the Mount Moriah cemetery where a lot of those legendary
figures that were in the show are buried right behind me ssible like you'll
remember him he is one of the main characters and was Sheriff and pioneered
this town below me is Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane along with other
characters from the movie such as Saul Starr and the Reverend Smith 1876 Wild
Bill Hickok came to Deadwood South Dakota and yes there really is a
Deadwood South Dakota shortly after his arrival he was shot in the back by Jack
McCall but the thing is is that while Bill he never left Atwood South Dakota
and he's right behind me here at Mount Moriah cemetery just above Deadwood
South Dakota and next to him is calamity J next to the Fairmont on the corner of
Main and Wall Street is the real location where they think while bill was
killed it isn't dispute where he was really
killed but as far as dead words concerned with their markers it's here
at the Wild Bill bar right next to the Fairmont several people had thrown coins
in and around or put rocks around his monument and what that means is to honor
the dead to let them know that you came to pay your respects no bill was exhumed
from the Englewood cemetery right below here and moved to this Cemetery
it is said that when they dug up Wild Bill's body that it was petrified and
that you could hit it with a stick and it would sound by a log who knows if
that is true so I'm coming into the parking lot at the Mount Moriah cemetery
and just below us right in this area right here is where the Inglewood
cemetery used to be all the bodies were exhumed and brought up the hill to the
Mount Moriah and you can see it overlooks Deadwood right next to Wild
Bill is also potato Creek Johnny potato Creek Johnny discovered the largest gold
nugget here in Deadwood and he has the honor of being buried next to Wild Bill
Hickok now it's a myth that the two will it were lovers they were more
acquaintances than they were lovers but calumny Jane had a lot of respect for
Wild Bill and when she died her dying request was that she wanted to be buried
beside Wild Bill now the Calamity Jane died very close to her just south of
here and she didn't after she spent time here
in Deadwood she did leave the area and ended up coming back after the turn of
the century and ended up dying up the road from here
this is calamity Janes grave right here we've come to pay our respects so their
grave sites that actually been vandalized many times they've had
different sculptures over the years he was originally buried with a wood
tombstone when he was buried down in the Englewood Cemetery which is dot was just
below here but there's homes there now but over the years everything was
vandalized and so they finally went it with a bronze monument so it would last
the test of time so that's Bullock's family pot is not a very steep incline
at the top of the cemetery the family
cemetery it's about five miles up this road so
really this book you've got buried way up here this is a Janssen it's the Steve
Kline it's just this little cold because we have a snow storm coming in
again it's about point one five miles up you could get a wheelchair up here but
it is broken up asphalt and as you can see behind me or to the side of me
there's this beautiful view of Deadwood from up here
so it's always an adventure covered home martini in it so all these rocks that
you see are what people have put on his grave to show their respect it was a
well-respected this town and pioneer and I just I can't seem to find him so I'm
not really sure if he's here or not or if his grave is unmarked but because he
was such a prominent citizen of this town
you would think that they would have a sign right there I am in the graveyard
people have it man
so I found out where Solomon's star is buried he's not here he's in st. Louis
and that's why we can't find him so on the internet there's a lot of
conflicting information he did die here in in Deadwood but his body is in a
mausoleum in st. Louis so there you go
so now we're gonna look for Margaret Broadwater Margaret killed herself she
jumped out of the Fairmont Hotel and she landed in so much mud because the dead
wood always had a ton of mud in the streets it was like a foot thick that it
broke her fall but she did die a couple days later from internal injuries very
sad she was distraught and I want to show my respect to her by visiting her
grave and and Satan Wilbur I can't find Maggie's grave and I'm kind of
disappointed findagrave.com doesn't say where she is and I'm really sad because
I want to pay my respects so right above me is an area where they buried the
children that were inflicted with smallpox and also scarlet fever there
was a very large smallpox outbreak here in Deadwood and it is said that calamity
jane helped with those children and the people that were inflicted and it is
known as one of her biggest acts of kindness was taking care of people and
especially during the help the smallpox outbreak
so there was a very large fire in Deadwood and I am standing in a mass
grave where many of those people were buried during that fire the actual
original Deadwood completely burnt to the ground in the spire so most of the
buildings that stand there today are not the original Deadwood buildings that
were here during the gold mining era we're on our way to preacher Smith's
gravesite and he's got a nice visitor that we don't want to disturb right next
to his headstone
so that was Mount Moriah cemetery that was pretty awesome
I was very impressed with Bill Hickok's grave and Clementi Jane
but that hike up to Zeff Bullock's grave I was pretty cool and we have snowstorm
coming in there's always a snowstorm coming in when we're out and about
though so we're cold and we're going into an indoor museum