Mount Moriah Cemetery (South Dakota)

Mount Moriah Cemetery
Wild Bill Hickok's grave overlooking Mount Moriah Cemetery
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Established1880s
Location
CountryUnited States
Coordinates44°22′34″N 103°43′30″W / 44.376°N 103.725°W / 44.376; -103.725
Owned byCity of Deadwood
No. of graves3,000+
WebsiteOfficial website
Find a GraveMount Moriah Cemetery

Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West.

By tradition, the American flag flies over the cemetery 24 hours a day, rather than merely from sunrise to sunset.[1]

  1. ^ Straub, Patrick (2009). It Happened in South Dakota: Remarkable Events That Shaped History. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-7627-6171-5.

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