Dakota Territory, 1876. The legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok and his friend Charlie Utter arrive in the gold rush town of Deadwood with a wagon train coming from Cheyenne. Although marked by age and illness, Wild Bill is still capable of taking down any man in a fair duel. However, all he wants is to spend his days peacefully in the saloon. But Deadwood is not a place where one finds peace. Here, the law of the strongest prevails. Soon, more than one man is after Wild Bill's life, for he is one of the few who can still distinguish right from wrong in this town. In "Deadwood," Pete Dexter draws on historical sources to depict the Wild West as it truly was: dirty, corrupt, filled with greed and raw violence. Yet his tone is that of a laconic chronicler.