Deadwood Alive

History at its finest... and most fun!
Address: 
P.O. Box 190, Deadwood

2024 Deadwood Alive Spring Schedule - Friday-Saturday: May 3 - May 11

  • 12:00PM - Lawman's Patrol – Walking Tour $15/person. Call 1-800-344-8826 to book this tour. Must book 24 Hours in advance
  • 1:00 PM – “Black Hills Wildlife – Then and Now” – Mustang Sally’s
  • 2:00 PM – SHOOTOUT - "A Shooting Affray" - Outlaw Square
  • 2:30 PM - "Firearms of the Frontier" - Mustang Sally’s
  • 4:00 PM - SHOOTOUT - "Showdown on Gold Street" - Outlaw Square
  • 4:20 PM - Hangin' with the Shootists - Outlaw Square - meet the gunslingers, ask questions and take photos

Show Descriptions 

  • 12:00PM - Lawman's Patrol - Tour Deadwood's Main Street with a Deadwood Lawman.  Discover true stories of gold, gambling, shootouts, destructive fires, and how to hang on to your money and your life.
  • 1:00 PM “Black Hills Wildlife – Then and Now” – Mustang Sally’s - Experience an educational and entertaining hands-on program describing how Deadwood's gold-mining pioneers of the mid-1870s to the turn of the century, interacted with the area's wildlife. Using teeth, claws, fur, and footprints of Black Hills creatures, gunslingers provide details of the animals in the area, the habitats they lived and thrived in, how the human population interacted with the wildlife, and how things have changed over time.
  • 2:00 PM – A Shooting Affray - Outlaw square – After a long night of revelry, two friends get into a disagreement over who gets the pleasure of paying for liberations. This affray ends with one man shot and the other sent a packin'. If your drunken friend was spittin' mad at you, would you let him borrow your gun?
  • 2:30 PM – Firearms of the Frontier - Join Deadwood Alive as they explore the evolution of pre-1899 firearms. Learn about and see examples of early trapper flintlocks of the 1700s and early 1800s, Percussion cap rifles, pistols, and shotguns of the early West, and cartridge-firing weapons that tamed the West. See how the technological advances of each era added to firearm reliability, ease of loading, capacity, and rate of fire.
  • 4:00 PM – Showdown on Gold Street – Two gamblers disagree about the outcome of a poker game and decide the best way to settle this is to pull their six guns and shoot it out. Things don't go as either gambler expected, and the result is a Deadwood legend. Come watch this "shootout at high noon" (well, it's noon somewhere) and see who comes out on top.
  • 4:20 PM - Hangin' with the Shootists - Meet the gunslingers, ask questions, get trading cards and autographs!


Monday - Thursday: Closed
Friday - Saturday: 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Sunday: Closed