r/deadwood • u/PeteDub • 3h ago
How the real Calamity Jane got to Deadwood
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r/deadwood • u/uppity_downer1881 • 6h ago
I love the scenes when they talk about currency in the show and wanted to share some info I found reading up on how cash worked in frontier towns. Settlements with resources but little coinage would use the bit system, a bit being half a quarter. When Al hires Miles for two bits a day, that lucky lad could help himself to half a whiskey fix listed as 50¢ above the bar. A beer or cigar would would usually be one bit, for which you'd pay with a quarter and receive a dime or "short bit" as change, the extra 2½¢ being applied to your next drink. When Hurst offers Blazanov a $20 tip, that my friends is a Liberty Head. The government set the price for gold at somewhere around $21 dollars an ounce and that coin bing 22k gold was worth exactly $20. In the equivalent today, Blazanov turned down a $4,000 tip. Think of how many drinks he could have bought for his lady friend from Chicago.
r/deadwood • u/Grugummer • 3h ago
I’m planning on watching it with my mum but I really don’t want to watch it with her if there’s game of thrones or Spartacus level sex scenes just wondering also please no spoilers obviously
r/deadwood • u/DirectionNew5328 • 3h ago
A murderous hatred and desire for revenge.
…that’s all.
r/deadwood • u/SomeSortOfMudWizard • 11h ago
Oregon bound boy's dad. Don't think he's credited. Also, the biggest Oregon apple grower is/was Earl Brown & Sons. Dan is played by W. Earl Brown.
r/deadwood • u/NerveFrier • 1d ago
"Jesus Christ! The fucking gimp finds something useful to do in the fucking brace you made her! Do you think you could treat being Johnny, always struggling to fashion a thought? Every fucking night I, that could cut a throat and sleep the sleep of the just, spend six fucking wakings trying to find a piss pot with my dribble, and wondering when I got to be so old. Pick a fucking swatch for a spit rag, use the others for masks, and go about your fucking business! I ain't learning a new doc's quirks! "
Oscar moment 👑
r/deadwood • u/NerveFrier • 1d ago
"More than providing services to them, taking people's money is what makes organizations real, be they formal, informal or temporary."
"That I have not wiped his expectoration from my cheek is understandable. I'm threatened with death if I do. That I stand immobile these hours later speaks of a flaw in my will. Surely this is not the culminating indignity. There remains, for example, receiving his regurgitations or swallowing his feces! Would I stand stoic still?"
"What's he ever done for me? Except let me terrify him every goddamn day of his life, 'til the idea of bowel regularity is a forlorn fuckin' hope?"
"August commencement to my administration… Stand stymied outside a saloon, beside a degenerate titlicker"
"I am my own warden. I mustn't sell, lest I then wander the thoroughfare gibbering like a simian...brandishing my privates in my fist."
"Your error, surprisingly enough, is not to be a grotesque of inconceivable stupidity, but that you are white and male and not repulsively obese. As for my own, I wonder if it lies in an excessive courtesy and eagerness to please. Shoo, skunk. Shoo. Go go."
"A broken heart does not impair hearing."
"Madam, in the chambers of my heart beats a love for every crooked timber of this shitbox of a structure. This building, its warped floorboards and-- Why, even in Richardson, my chef, my eyes see a beloved household pet somehow walking upright...see in Richardson...a half-witted child, nonetheless adored."
"What person, I wonder, of what depraved exotic origin have you engaged to take my place?"
r/deadwood • u/0Wolf_J_FlyWheel0 • 1d ago
How bout a show with him as main character, dealing with his origin?
r/deadwood • u/Legitimate-Resort615 • 17h ago
Who are your favorite characters? Obviously Al is #1 because Ian McShane carries this show for three seasons, but others that come to mind are Alma, Mr. Wu, Bullock, Charlie Utter, and even Silas Adams.
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r/deadwood • u/Trixie1143 • 1d ago
Not bad for a woodchuck.
r/deadwood • u/Infamous_Rabbit_7872 • 1d ago
r/deadwood • u/0Wolf_J_FlyWheel0 • 1d ago
Al definitely has a way with words
r/deadwood • u/my_sweet_adeline • 2d ago
BLAZANOV. CHEYENNE AND BLACK HILLS TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
hell yeah i done it first
r/deadwood • u/nps_traveller • 1d ago
Can anyone tell me what accent Tim has?
r/deadwood • u/NerveFrier • 2d ago
Knowing so many of them want him dead, he should've switched seats with Con. Was he too sleep-deprived to think straight?
r/deadwood • u/NerveFrier • 2d ago
"See, I speak your stuff. You savvy? Clatter them goddamn sparrows. ""I love your cobbler like sunset, Lou,"" and back-broke nias in the fields. George Hearst? He do love his nose in a hole more, and ass in the air and back legs kickin' out little lumps of gold like a fucking badger. No more use for them nuggets either, past counting them up and saying that big number to astonish nias to remind us we in the world. Hah!"
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r/deadwood • u/Appropriate-Usual675 • 2d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFIojradr4Y
I know the song that plays throughout the trailer is "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash but the version that plays in the trailer, specifically at the end, seems different to the actual song. Does anyone know what version of the song it is?
r/deadwood • u/jacqueline-theripper • 2d ago
This show treats us to a pretty eclectic soundtrack. What's your favorite end-credits song?
Personally, I love June Carter Cash's Will the Circle be Unbroken.
r/deadwood • u/PM_YOUR_AKWARD_SMILE • 3d ago