While leading prospectors to the Black Hills Sioux territory, Dan Ryan, formerly of Custer's 7th Cavalry, must travel through the Badlands of Deadwood, a lawless town filled with thieves, gamblers, and whores, where Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok have arrived to stake their claim. Original.

The famous Wild Bill Hickok has come to Deadwood to stake his claim—and some of the town's gamblers worry that the legendary lawman will clean up Deadwood. For help, they cal on the Gem Theater's ruthless owner, Al Swearengen—who knows a stone-cold shootist who can end Hickok's wild days permanently.

They say in a hundred years, Deadwood will be long gone-blown away like prairie dust. They also say Wild Bill Hickok can't be killed. Unless he wants to be. Gem Theater owner Al Swearengen and whorehouse madam Laurette Parkhurst want Wild Bill Hickok killed. They don't want Deadwood-and their dirty profits-cleaned up. But the famous gunman hasn't survived this long on sheer luck. He can only be killed if he deliberately lets his guard down. But Hickok would never be so careless.

Retired Army sergeant Dan Ryan came to Deadwood to stake his claim on the gold of the Black Hills. Then General George Crook’s army arrives with a dangerous get-rich-quick scheme of their own: draft Ryan into stealing from Deadwood’s deadliest resident.