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Rapid CityDeadwood

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Narrated by The Chronicler 67 km · about 43 min · 9 stories

The Black Hills were never sold — the 1876 gold rush simply broke the treaty. This drive covers that rush, Annie Tallent walking in with the miners, Wild Bill Hickok's last card game, and Seth Bullock, the sheriff who kept Deadwood from eating itself.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Rapid City, South Dakota

    The Pap Madison Cabin

  2. 2
    Rapid City, South Dakota

    The Sioux and Black Hills

  3. 3
    Black Hawk, South Dakota

    The Lost Town of Sacora

  4. 4
    Piedmont, South Dakota

    The 1876 Gold Rush

  5. 5
    Piedmont, South Dakota

    The Founding of Black Hills National Cemetery

  6. 6
    Sturgis, South Dakota

    The Sacred Mount Mato Paha

  7. 7
    Sturgis, South Dakota

    Annie Tallent's Black Hills Journey

  8. 8
    Sturgis, South Dakota

    Wild Bill Hickok's Deadwood End

  9. 9
    Sturgis, South Dakota

    Seth Bullock's Frontier Life

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.