For a few days each July, the famous Black Hills town-whose reputation as a western Sodom once rivaled that of Tombstone and Dodge City-stages a parade featuring horseback riders bedecked in western garb accompanied by a procession of wagons and floats to commemorate its beginnings as a wide-open frontier boomtown. Like many western towns, Deadwood, South Dakota, keeps the memory of its early frontier days alive with an annual community celebration. Download PDFs of articles from the first 43 years and obtain recent issues of South Dakota History at /journal. Members support the Society's important mission of interpreting, preserving and transmitting the unique heritage of South Dakota. Membership in the South Dakota State Historical Society includes a subscription to the journal. South Dakota History is the quarterly journal published by the South Dakota State Historical Society. South Dakota History, volume 40 number 1, 2010 The Wild West Show as Community Celebration
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