I almost decided not to drive into Deadwood. US 385 hits US 85, right in between Deadwood and Lead, and I was planning to make a left instead of a right. At the last moment, though, I decided it would be a waste to be so close to Deadwood (just a couple of miles), and not check it out. I knew that Deadwood had become a gambling town in recent years, so my hopes weren’t very high. I expected to find that a few huge, out-of-place casinos had bulldozed everything else in the historic mining town, in order to create […]