Deadwood Movie
an' The Hog of the Forsaken
got no reason to cry
he got to chew the angels
fallen from on high
he ain't waitin' for no answer
bakin' woeful pie
pie of eyesight, pie blue-black
whoa that pie, the pie of bye-n-bye
an' The Hog of the Forsaken
well, he ain't like you and I
with bones always breakin'
an' no place to go an' lie
he sit in the bog so dark and wet
he got so much time
he ain't even worried yet
The Hog of the Forsaken
he is the pork of crime
----Michael Hurley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurley_(musician)
Hog of the Forsaken, by Michael Hurley, provides the melody for the themesong of the TV series Deadwood, and is included in its original entirety at the finale of Deadwood, the Movie (2019)
Hurley was paid $10,000 for the song's usage in the pilot episode of the HBO show. The song features in a running plot motif in which the slain of the town are fed to hogs managed by the Chinese citrizen leader in the territorial and mostly lawless Deadwood.
"Deadwood: The Movie is a 2019 American television drama film directed by Daniel Minahan and written by David Milch for HBO. It is a continuation of the television series of the same name, which ran for three seasons from 2004 to 2006. The film reunites the majority of the large ensemble cast, including Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Paula Malcomson, John Hawkes, and Gerald McRaney, and premiered on May 31, 2019."
https://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+hog+of+the+forsaken&oq=lyrics+hog+o&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57.10104j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood:_The_Movie
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"The idea for the Canton Asylum began as a simple suggestion by Indian agent Peter Couchman of the Cheyenne River Agency. In 1897, he wrote to the Indian Service about the unpleasant conditions insane Indians faced on reservations.
Anyone suspected of insanity usually ended up in a jail or guardhouse because there were no appropriate facilities on site."
http://cantonasylumforinsaneindians.com/history_blog/tag/cheyenne-river-agency/
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"Peter Couchman, married to Mary Bloodgood, Cheyenne River Indian Agent
The end of the nineteenth century brought about the beginning of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians. Indian agent Peter Couchman had suggested a separate facility for Indian patients in 1897, Senator Richard Pettigrew had endorsed the suggestion, and the Indian Bureau had cooperated in forwarding his cause.
The asylum, however, was a relatively minor matter for most of the country’s population, who focused, instead, on the Spanish-American War."
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/102115186/
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"Despite the shaky evidence, the court commissioner
bound the three policemen over to the United States
grand jury set to convene at Deadwood, South Dakota, in
February 1895.
Agent Couchman objected strenuously to
the action, considering the matter long settled.
In a letter
to the commissioner of Indian affairs, he called the men
involved "the best men I have on the force, [who] always
cheerfully and promptly obey their orders, and are very
careful not to go beyond them or exceed their authority
in any way."-^"'
Miller convened the grand juiy on 5 February 1893, in
Deadwood, South Dakota. John Whitlock of the original
coroner's jury questioned the location of the proceedings,
stating in a letter to Herbert Welsh of the Indian Rights Association
that
Miller chose Deadwood "only because it
was thought the sentiment there was against the Indian
race."
My Great-Grandfather's sister, my great great great aunt: https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/ettie-couchman-24-49zv56y?geo_a=t&geo_s=au&geo_t=us&geo_v=2.0.0&o_iid=41018&o_lid=41018&o_sch=Web+Property
My Great-Grandfather, Freeman Bloodgood:
"Middleburgh, July 28. – Word has been received here that Freeman Bloodgood, ninety-two, formerly of Conesville, near Middleburgh, is dead at State College, N. M. Mr. Bloodgood moved to New Mexico in 1881. He engaged in teaming and hauled freight between Las Vegas and White Oaks.
He also hauled the first load of ore out of Kingston in New Mexico, when that place was a mining camp. The ore was hauled to Nut station before Deming was founded.
At Kingston he was a crony of Doheny, the oil magnate. He later conducted a ranch in the Mogollones, after which he went into the cattle business near Kingston. He was born in New York state.
About four years ago he fell and since then had been in poor health, making his home with his son, Dean Bloodgood. The later was a former student in Middleburgh High school before locating in the west. Surviving are his wife, who was Ophelia A. Shoemaker, oldest daughter of Abram Shoemaker, formerly of Conesville, at that time called Stone Bridge; two sons, Dean Bloodgood of State College and Ellsworth Bloodgood of Kingston, N. M. He was also a brother-in-law of Weidman Shoemaker, eighty-five, of Middleburgh. Dr. Garrison E. Shoemaker of Cobleskill is a nephew. Interment was made in the Masonic cemetery at Las Cruces, N. M."
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyschoha/fbloodgoodobit.html
"Ellsworth F. Bloodgood, a well-known cattle man living at Kingston, New Mexico, is a native of Schoharie County, New York, born July 11, 1862. His education was acquired in Kansas and in 1879, when a youth of seventeen years, he went to Colorado with an emigrant train. He has since been identified with business interests upon the plains and the frontier. He came to New Mexico in 1881, settling first at White Oaks, and in 1882 removed to Kentucky, where he became identified with freighting. He hauled the first load of ore out of the camp and continued in the freighting business from 1882 until 1884, when, believing that the cattle industry would prove more profitable, he established a ranch on the Gila River, making his home, however, in Kingston, as he was prevented from moving to the ranch because of the warlike attitude of the Indians, who were continually committing atrocities and depredations upon the white settlers of the frontier.
Mr. Bloodgood has now for twenty-two years been actively engaged in the cattle business and at the same time has followed mining to a greater or less extent. He has developed the O. K. mine, from which he has taken considerable ore, but he ceased to work this after the demonetization of silver. He now has extensive herds of cattle upon his ranch and his annual sales and shipments are extensive, yielding him a good profit. He is thoroughly familiar with the history of development and progress here and his personal experiences in connection with the settlement of the frontier, if written in detail, would prove again the correctness of the old adage that "truth is stranger than fiction."
Mr. Bloodgood was married in Kansas to Miss Cora Longfellow and they have one son. In his fraternal relations he is a Mason, holding membership in Kingston Lodge No. 16, A. F. & A. M."
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