The Dakota Experience Creating Communities: The Frontier (1860-1880)
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Penny postcard image of Deadwood in 1876. Early Deadwood's main street had wood-frame buildings housing a wide variety of respectable businesses—a bank, a dentist, a printing shop, and a market—as well as several saloons and liquor stores. Note the logs at lower right, used to shore up a mine shaft dug right under the street.

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