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CrimeWaves - Angie Ambers: The Mystery of Deadwood Gulch

Angie Ambers: The Mystery of Deadwood Gulch

CrimeWaves

08/29/23 • 38 min

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In the 1870s, thousands of people poured into the mining town of Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Some of those people are still famous today.
"Calamity Jane" - known throughout the world as the gun-slinging, bar and brothel owner .
Wyatt Earp - the most dangerous of all the gun-slinging US Marshals.
Wild Bill Hickok, a man whose biographers claimed killed only six people in gunfights.
And there was another person...
A man whose identity was a mystery until current-day investigators got to work...
Their trail involved forensic dentistry, genealogy, and, good, old-fashioned detective work to trace the identity of an unknown man dead for over one-hundred-and-twenty years.

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08/29/23 • 38 min

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CrimeWaves - Angie Ambers: The Mystery of Deadwood Gulch

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The Mystery of Deadwood Gulch

Dead men do tell tales in this incredible investigation into a skeleton from the gun-slinging, Wild West found in a suburban backyard.

Declan Hill:

There are certain places whose very names capture something about the zeitgeist, the spirit of a country and its history.

The Bronx.

Hollywood.

Silicon Valley.

Those names function as adjectives, shorthand for a feeling, a col

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