Hey, it's Chris Wimmer.

Stick with me for 30 seconds.

This is my reminder that my book, The Summer of 1876, Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in

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It's a fun, fast narrative that weaves together several stories from one transformative summer.

Thanks, and now on with the show.

In September 1879, in the middle of the night, a fire erupted in a bakery while the town of Deadwood

slept.

It proved to be the most destructive fire in the history of the city, but certainly not the last.

Four years later, torrents of water rushed through the gulches of the Black Hills.

Some towns were nearly wiped off the map.

Downtown Deadwood was completely flooded.

So you might not have to strain very hard to see why the creator of the HBO show Deadwood drew

parallels between the Old Testament towns of Sodom and Camorra, and Deadwood of the 1870s.

In the 1880s.

David Milch, the series creator, latched on to the twin pillars of vise and depravity and played

them for all they were worth in the show.

And if the drama had not been abruptly cancelled, fictional Deadwood seemed likely to suffer the

same fates as the real Deadwood, punishment by disaster.

As you may have heard or read, the original plan for the Deadwood TV show was to run five seasons,

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