Paul might have been a sufferer of temporal-lobe epilepsy. The sermon found with his remains was 'Upon Whose Life We Shall Base Ours, Upon Whom Better Than the Great Sinner Paul.'ДЄs Milch had suspected, St. Though he was fond of saying The Bible was his protection, Smith was murdered making his way from Deadwood to a neighboring town to preach. It was the tragic end of Deadwood preacher Reverend Henry Weston Smith (played by Ray McKinnon) that earned the notice of Milch. Paul inspired Reverend Smith's epilepsy plot line. This made him a recurring figure in the local newspapers like the Black Hills Pioneer, where he was described as 'irrepressible, duplicatory, candescent,' 'the 'slycoon' senegambian,' and 'The Shakespearian Darkey.' He was also an outspoken activist for the African-American community of Deadwood. General Samuel Fields was a Deadwood celebrity.ДЄs actor Franklyn Ajaye did in the series, General Samuel Fields proudly called himself 'The N****r General.' He was a notable presence in the camp not only for his claims of being a Union Army general, but also for his flamboyant personality. And the two, who died nearly 30 years apart, were buried beside each other in Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery. However, in her memoir, Jane did describe him as a friend. The pair did come to Deadwood together, but hadn't known each other long before that. It's suspected that their connection has been conflated over the years as a part of the blossoming tall tales of the Old West. Calamity Jane and Wild Bill weren't really that close. Babcock believed that without her care not one of them would have pulled through.' 9. She wore a dark cloth coat that never had been good, a cheap little hat, a faded frayed skirt and arctic overshoes вЂ¦ She came unscathed through the long smallpox siege and most of her patients lived. 'She was a plain woman, looking older than she really was. In Estelline Bennett's Old Deadwood Days, she paints a picture of Calamity Jane (a.k.a. This generous action has been historically documented, along with Jane's trademark rough-and-tumble appearance. In season one, smallpox hits Deadwood and Doc and Jane see to the afflicted. David Milch didn't want Ian McShane to audition for the role of Al Swearengen. Eventually, he was run out of Deadwood and died of a massive head wound that was either caused by a fall from a failed leap onto a freight train or a willful act of murder. His wife publicly accused him of domestic abuse. He was a sex trafficker, tricking women into coming to Deadwood to work in his various business ventures-like a theater-but then forcing them into prostitution.

The real Swearengen was much less admirable. In Deadwood, Ian McShane's Al Swearengen is a pimp, crook, and murderer, but he is also the protector of the 'crippled' Jewel and grimly civic-minded. The real Al Swearengen was no romantic anti-hero. He has a fierce looking melodrama-villain's mustache and wears a sombrero.' 5. The Chicago Tribune later ran a delightful description of Bullock: 'Bullock attracted general attention around the White House today. That last vocation earned him the aforementioned reputation, which endeared him to Theodore Roosevelt, whom Bullock later successfully helped campaign for the presidency of the United States. He invested in the community, headed health care boards, and became the town's first sheriff. As in the show, Seth Bullock came to Deadwood with his friend Sol Star to open a hardware store.

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