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Here's How You Can Watch Every Season Of Deadwood Here's How You Can Watch Every Season Of Deadwood HBO Any serious TV watcher knows that Deadwood, HBO's Western series about the settling of the titular South Dakota town, is one of the best shows ever made. It's not as popular as its top-tier peers like The Sopranos, The Wire, and Breaking Bad, but it has to be in the conversation alongside those classics when discussing the all-time greatest TV dramas. Deadwood's extraordinary dialogue, acting, and production value make it a must-watch for anyone interested in television ...

PIERRE, S.D. — A judge-turned-lawmaker urged colleagues in the South Dakota Senate on Tuesday to abolish the state’s death penalty for almost all crimes, recalling that one of the most difficult actions he took during his career on the bench was sentencing a man to die. Republican Arthur Rusch presented his case for a bill that would allow the death penalty only for people convicted of killing a law enforcement officer or firefighter. The South Dakota Catholic Conference and some conservative lawmakers are supporting the bill, but their fellow Republicans, prosecutors and a murder victim�...

The Truth About Wild West Gunfights Shutterstock By Joseph A. Williams/Jan. 22, 2021 11:53 am EDT Shootouts in the Wild West are, in the popular imagination, full of stereotypes. Many movie-goers have seen Clint Eastwood as a lone drifter coming to mete out justice through the barrel of a gun or an all star team of gunslingers defending a village ravaged by bandits. The Wild West, and in particular its shootouts, are engraved into popular culture. But are these shootouts true? The violence of Wild West shootouts has many surprising historic kernels of truth. Where it differs ...

“It’s as plain as the nose on your face.” Have you ever heard that said? Over the course of my life I’ve heard all kinds of sayings or expressions. My grandfather Herod Brim had a favorite expression. Any time he wanted to emphasize a point, he would declare, “Dad blame, you know what?!” My old Woodbury buddy, the late Cecil Vinson, had a favorite. His was “Dad Jim Luck!” Our neighbor, the late Thomas Denton, used to holler out, “Shout a monkey!” His brother, Jim David Denton, would utter with dismay, “Well, if that don’t beat the he...

True West Magazine “Who was California Joe?” asked J.W. Buel in his Heroes of the Plains published in 1882, for Joe’s origin was as much a mystery to his contemporaries as it was for many who came later. Some claimed his name was Joseph Milner (favored by Buffalo Bill Cody) or Joseph Hawkins, and others claimed that he was Truman Head, the famous “California Joe” of Col. Hiram Berdan’s Civil War Sharpshooters. Even Custer admitted that he did not know Joe’s real name, for “no other name seemed ever to have been given him, and no other name ever seemed necessary.”