Deadwood, 1876 — The Wild West Town That Was NEVER LEGAL

Deadwood is remembered as one of the wildest towns in the American West - but the real story is stranger than saloons, gold, and gunfights. In eighteen seventy six, Deadwood sat illegally in the Black Hills, on land the United States had promised to the Lakota under the Fort Laramie Treaty. That meant the town had miners, gamblers, saloons, murder, and thousands of settlers - but no real legal court. This video follows how Deadwood became a town that was never supposed to exist, how Wild Bill Hickok was murdered at a poker table, why Jack McCall walked free after a fake miners’ court trial, and how the same killing later sent him to the gallows in a real federal courtroom. If you enjoyed this story, subscribe for more gripping history from the Wild West. Leave a comment - was Deadwood truly lawless, or was it trapped inside a legal contradiction from the start? #Deadwood #WildWest #WildBillHickok #JackMcCall #AmericanWest #OldWest #BlackHills #LakotaHistory #WesternHistory #HistoryDocumentary 00:00 Intro 00:45 Gold In The Black Hills 02:10 The Treaty That Made Deadwood Illegal 03:28 A Town With No Real Court 04:48 Wild Bill Hickok Arrives In Deadwood 06:18 The Poker Table Murder 07:42 Jack McCall And The Fake Trial 09:20 Why The Killer Walked Free 10:55 The Real Law Catches Up In Yankton 12:28 McCall’s Second Trial And Execution 13:35 The Black Hills Are Taken 14:38 Seth Bullock And The Law Comes To Deadwood 15:35 What Deadwood Really Proved 16:08 Outro