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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Mama's Column: Children

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:44:47 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Mama's Column: Children

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you (Exodus 20:12). I am not one to complain, but there are entirely too many children running free on the streets of Deadwood. Why, in my day, children would be seen and not heard. There [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Most Famous Man in America Arrives in Black Hills

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:12:31 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Most Famous Man in America Arrives in Black Hills Renowned Scout and shootist, the lawman Wild Bill Hickok, rode into Deadwood and added another star to the grand Heavens that is the Black Hills of our destiny. Mr. Hickok entered town modestly and without fanfare, as is his way, according to numerous people around the country. All who met him in Deadwood reported what we [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Ask Auntie Bluebird: In a Pickle

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:06:56 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Ask Auntie Bluebird: In a Pickle Somebody stole my pickles. I keep askin myself why, but I can't figure it out. They was good pickles. Cold and snappy just like folks like. Got the recipe from old Hattie Lou, the best cook in the country in Mississippi back in 1846 where I was a girl. They good, but still, they was just [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Letter: Ship Children to America

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:03:42 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Letter: Ship Children to America Editor, I call upon you as a local upstanding businessman to organize a benefit for the sad, ragamuffins of questionable origin proliferating about Deadwood Gulch. One can barely swing a hand bag without accidently striking one or two. I know from experience, that for every lost hungry child you see on the street, 10 more [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Hotel Employee Stops Robbery; Bosom Heaves

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:02:16 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Hotel Employee Stops Robbery; Bosom Heaves A robbery by a gang of vicious snarling armed men at the new Custer Hotel was foiled by a hotel employee as local military supervised. The young hero, one Jonah Wiskee, employed by the hotel as a handyman and security guard, proved his worth by single handedly thwarting further harm to hotel employee Alyssa Fitzhugh. Horrified [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Fanbridge Honors Dead Hero with Hotel

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:58:42 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Fanbridge Honors Dead Hero with Hotel

Rodger Fanbridge announces the opening of his second establishment in Deadwood, the Custer Hotel.

Originally to be named “The Fanbridge Hotel,” after the recent noble demise of Colonel George Armstrong Custer at The Battle of the Little Bighorn, Mister Fanbridge said he felt moved to pay homage.

The hotel, one of Deadwood’s first two-story buildings, has several [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Editorial: Now We've Made It

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:29:52 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Editorial: Now We've Made It It may not have occurred to you lately, but what stories will you be telling your grandchildren? One point of pride you already have is that you are in the Black Hills at the most exciting time in American history. Our nation, through science and democracy, is reshaping the world for the better almost as much, [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Black Hills Celebrates First Fourth of July

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:23:42 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Black Hills Celebrates First Fourth of July We may not be part of the United States - for this is Indian Country - yet we know who our hearts belong to. America was celebrated with great delight thanks to many organizers. The town owes great thanks to gunsmith Lockmont Mortlock for his pyrotechnics, as well as to the Black Hills Pioneer and editor [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Ask Auntie Bluebird, July 1876

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:47:03 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Ask Auntie Bluebird, July 1876 Top of the Column: Summer Pickles If you the kind who’s running a kitchen garden, I know the one thing you got too many of right now is cucumbers. They all over the place, and that’s good cause if you know what your doing, that mean pickles all year round. I got a real simple recipe [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: America Turns 100 This Weekend!

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:46:43 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: America Turns 100 This Weekend! Miss Eloise will be singing the national anthem, "Hail, Columbia." Come, men, and enjoy her pipes Come to Deadwood for Fourth of July activities You brave enough to live in the Black Hills know this is Indian Territory, but it is soon to be part of the United States. We are all Americans then, wherever we are [...]

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Estwee wrote a new blog post: Editorial: Look Close to See Who Killed Custer

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:46:12 +0000

Estwee wrote a new blog post: Editorial: Look Close to See Who Killed Custer We were going to pen an editorial of outrage over the incident of a massacre involving the much-loved General Custer, but the ((Real Life)) Colorado Daily Chieftain of Pueblo, Colorado, produced as fine as an editorial as we could write at home, and we reproduce it here. Who Killed Custer? O n Wednesday night, the startling news was flashed [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Mama's Column: What You Need to Know about Deadwood

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:45:33 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Mama's Column: What You Need to Know about Deadwood By Mrs Morigi, mother of your editor The town of Deadwood looks like a muddy mess to me. I am told by what is supposed to be a reliable source that some day it will be a city as large and successful as San Francisco. It is no Saint Louis, that’s all I have to say [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Advertisement: Custer Hotel

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:45:05 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Advertisement: Custer Hotel

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Robbers Terrorize Innocent

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:44:44 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Robbers Terrorize Innocent No surprise an illegal town in the middle of nowhere and soaked in gold has its violence, including this highwayman who felled our editor while defending an older miner and the editor's own wife. Your editor recovers nicely and is grateful for expressions of concern. There is much wariness in these parts as we cannot be [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Classifieds

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:44:14 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Classifieds Church - An unsigned note tells us the church is what it appears to be though at the seedy end of Main. A new church has been opened right down the way from the newspaper's office. Food is set out when possible, and preachers are sought. Custer House Cook - free room and board, use of bath. [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Big Horn Expands

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:43:54 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Big Horn Expands There's much excitement of wealth leading to more wealth leading to new construction, such as additions to Mr. Kungler's Big Horn Store. We congratulate him.

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Military Seeks Deserters

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:38:07 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Military Seeks Deserters Scenes from a real problem, at least for the Army, scenes about desertion. First, picture, a sergeant patrols and offers a reward for deserters. Two, an officer confronts a suspected deserter huddled in a corner. Third, the officer is felled by the gunfire of the cowardly deserter; towns people reacted by milling about and speaking of [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: If You Can't Find Gold in a Stream, Look Under Your Bed

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:37:33 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: If You Can't Find Gold in a Stream, Look Under Your Bed Longtime veterans of mining camps know that after the gold runs out on the surface streams and hillsides - and we are a long ways from that - people dig into the Earth, first with picks and shovels, and if the earth is rich enough, dynamite. Someday the Black Hills may be filled with tunnels. [...]

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wyatt wrote a new blog post: Editor's Family Excitement

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:20:29 +0000

wyatt wrote a new blog post: Editor's Family Excitement The editor of our largest paper, your own proud Pioneer, had much to be excited about when his mother arrived unexpected, unexpectedly learning he and his better half had already sent her grandchildren away to safety. Mrs. Morigi enjoys the company of her family below, the smiles of all very evident. This picture below is one of [...]

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Frederick wrote a new blog post: The first look around with amnesia

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:49:16 +0000

Frederick wrote a new blog post: The first look around with amnesia ~Fred carries a water pitcher and meets a woman~ Rynn Dryke: *waves to the woman and smiles* LoLeCo Lacourte: My this is a quaint little town *smiles back kindly* Rynn Dryke: *tilts head, watching her nosy* Rynn Dryke: *points to himself* Frederick *points to her and looks quizzicaly* Rynn Dryke: *smiles* LoLeCo Lacourte: Hello Frederick *smiles* My [...]

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