Historical Marker
Memorial Day Order
Historical marker location:
Beresford, South Dakota
( Memorial is on South 8th Street south of West Oak Street, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1937
General Orders, No. 11.
The famous Wild West outlaw, Calamity Jane, lived and worked in South Dakota for a time. She even claimed to have saved the life of legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok in the town of Deadwood.