She wore a dark cloth coat that never had been good, a cheap little hat, a faded frayed skirt and arctic overshoes … She came unscathed through the long smallpox siege and most of her patients lived.
Getty Images How do you transform chaos into society? Though he was fond of saying The Bible was his protection, Smith was murdered making his way from Deadwood to a neighboring town to preach.
He was who he was, unadulterated.
He invested in the community, headed health care boards, and became the town's first sheriff.