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The Mystery of Deadwood Gulch
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The Mystery of Deadwood Gulch

Dead men do tell tales in this incredible investigation into a skeleton from the gun-slinging, Wild West found in a suburban backyard.
  1. In the 1870s,  thousands of people poured into the mining town of Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

    Some of those people are still famous today.   

    "Calamity Jane" - known throughout the world as the gun-slinging, bar and brothel owner . 

    Wyatt Earp -  the most dangerous of all the gun-slinging US Marshals.

    Wild Bill Hickok, a man whose biographers claimed  killed only six people in gunfights.

    And there was another person... 

    A man whose identity was a mystery until current-day investigators got to work... 

    Their trail involved forensic dentistry, genealogy, and, good, old-fashioned detective work to trace the identity of an unknown man dead for over one-hundred-and-twenty years. 

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