He was last seen as a penniless drunk, killed while trying to catch a train to Colorado. Sheriff Seth Bullock and some of the other residents stayed and rebuilt even stronger than before, but this time, Swearengen left town.
The town began to flourish again, but was devastated once more by fire in 1894. Swearengen's command of vice led him into conflict with Sheriff Seth Bullock, a stern Western lawman and another of the town's earliest residents. The town lost many of its residents, itinerant miners whose only possessions were destroyed in the fire, but Deadwood eventually recovered. The owner, Al Swearengen, rebuilt the Gem bigger and more extravagantly than its predecessor. In 1879, nearly the entire town burned to the ground, including the popular brothel known as the Gem Theater. Two major fires struck the town in the late 19th century. As a result, both the horses and the men had no food and the men eventually were forced to shoot their own horses for food.
General Cook and his men set off in pursuit with reduced rations in order to give a quicker chase, but they did not predict that the Sioux would burn the grass behind them. Another legendary event was the Horsemeat March of 1876 where General Cook led an expedition pursuing a band of Sioux natives fleeing the site of Custer's last stand, the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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