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The talented David Milch created a masterpiece, where the fictitious walked amongst the living and both painting a history of Deadwood. In the Agony of Lydia Fellowes, new fictitious characters are added to the fabric. Lydia Fellowes Newton has married well and badly. Forced into a loveless marriage, she engages is a platonic love affair with the notorious gunman, James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok during his sojourn in Abilene. Following the accidental shooting of Special Marshal Mike Williams by Hickok, the famous lawman hangs up his guns and in this story, turns over Williams’ orphaned daughter to Lydia and her husband, Frank. Lydia and Wild Bill correspond, but do not reunite until 1876, when a wagon train, including Lydia and a newly married Hickok head to the notorious camp known as Deadwood.