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Old Style Saloon No. 10

657 Main St, Deadwood, SD

"The only museum in the world with a bar" — and it's NOT where Wild Bill was shot, though it has spent 90 years happy to let you think so.

📅 1934–present🏛️ SaloonStill here
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The story

A local cartoonist reportedly told speakeasy man Stu Donavitz in the 1930s, "You should create the Saloon No. 10 where Wild Bill was killed." Donavitz rebuilt the front room to evoke the vanished original — even though the real shooting happened two blocks away at 624 Main. The Keehn family bought the bar in December 1963 and has run it four generations since, adding a stage, Aunt Sally's Fried Chicken (1986), and the Deadwood Social Club (1995). It stages summertime reenactments of the Hickok shooting.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

Despite the name and legend, this is NOT the building where Hickok died — that was 624 Main.
The rebrand was reportedly suggested by a local cartoonist, Elmer Kellogg, as a moneymaking idea.
The exact 1930s founding year isn't documented; the Keehn family has owned it continuously since 1963.

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Nearby history

Deadwood Main Street Historic District

Historic Main Street · 71 m away
A gold-rush boomtown, gutted twice by fire and left to fade, saved itself in 1989 by legalizing the very vice — gambling

Bullock Hotel

633 Main Street · 88 m away

The Midnight Star

677 Main St · 95 m away
Kevin Costner turned a historic Deadwood building into his own casino after falling in love with the Black Hills filming

The Gem Theatre

Lower Main Street (Wall & Main) · 143 m away
Al Swearengen's Gem Theatre pulled in as much as $10,000 a night from gambling, liquor, and coerced prostitution — and b

Adams Museum

54 Sherman St · 151 m away
A Deadwood businessman gave the town its first museum in 1930 — and it's still city property nearly a century later.

Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10

624 Main St · 163 m away
Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead here on August 2, 1876, holding two pair — aces and eights, black on black — forever know

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_Saloon_No._10