How accurate is HBO's 'Deadwood' series?

Answer 1

While certain aspects of dialogue are re-written to sound more natural to modern audiences, the series has been thoroughly researched, and a team of historians worked as consultants to give the series incredible autheticity. The major characters were all real people; and their lives and actions meticulously researched and documented.

As stated, certain liberties were taken for purposes of dramatic license; but the overall accuracy of the series has been universally lauded by professional historians of the era. It kills me that HBO in their infinite short-sidedness have chosen to cancel this series. I looked forward to it, and will greatly miss it.

Cheers, mate.

Answer 2

Pretty darn real...or, at least it was until now. They've decided to shelve it (tear) necessitating the consolidation of the rest of the true chronological story. Most of the characters are hyperbolized versions of real people and to paraphrase the show's creator "the rest of them should have been there." The delicious dialog is likewise pretty accurate...or, it's a lot like people wrote in those days anyway. The place is also real. Deadwood still exists in modern South Dakota (then disputed/Dakota Territory)...it was an illegal gold mining camp (one of several) that sprang up in Sioux Nation territory (land deeded to the Sioux and other northern plains tribes by the US government, then the entire western half of today's South Dakota.) The Indian reaction to this culminated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Actually Custer had originally been sent to Dakota to protect the Indians...but within a few years.... I would have been very interested to know if Custer was supposed to show up in Deadwood, maybe he still will.

Really good to talk to The Dude.

Answer 3

There was indeed a Deadwood. A good deal of the characters are based on real people. The way people lived is represented pretty accurately.

Answer 4

i myself liked it - it did no longer romanticize that era of historic previous, it portrayed it as being risky and a exceptionally horrific place to stay which it possibly substitute into and that i assumed that modify into truly sturdy. I hated the way it ended however. no longer something substitute into resolved and that i myself had to confirm George Hearst introduced down. there have been plans to action picture a bring about 2 2-hour television video clips yet they have been cancelled now that's certainly stressful >:(

Answer 5

Just for your info, the term "bl*w j*b" was first used in the mid twentieth century, there is no historic evidence of it's use or existence as a phrase before that.

In the show, they use it continuously. Really poor research and writing.

Answer 6

In the decade of the 1880's, 25% of the inhabitants of California died violent deaths. For real.

Deadwood is still much more fantasy that fact.