While doing the shooting for the feature Kikim interviewed Adams Museum & House, Inc. director Mary Kopco as well as Adams Museum & House staff and board members. Others interviewed included, area historians David Wolff (AM&H Board of Directors), Jerry Bryant (AM&H research curator), Phyllis Fleming (Homestake Visitors Center/ Black Hills Mining Museum) and Watson Parker.
Michael Schwartz of Kikim said that for the last three-years Kikim had produced all of the special features that appear on the HBO "Deadwood" DVDs. Each year they have done at least one piece that is about the real Deadwood.
"The real Deadwood pieces have more or less tried to track the trajectory of the content of the show," Schwartz said.
Schwartz added that the first real Deadwood feature was dedicated to 1876 Deadwood and the beginning of placer mining. The second and third seasons were dedicated to 1877.
This year Schwartz said the production is looking at mining. George Hearst's character and mining becomes more central to the show.
The feature is also looking at the coming of public education as well as the theater to Deadwood.
"John Langrishe becomes a major character," Schwartz said. "That's an interesting case. Langrishe was here in '76 but (David) Milch doesn't introduce him until '77. Not because he doesn't know it's historically inaccurate but because he felt that he had enough work to establish all the other characters."
Schwartz added that the series and the audience weren't ready for a character like Langrishe. The feature will tell a little about what kind of theater there was in Deadwood.
The feature will also look at elections because that is what the season is building up to, Schwartz said. One of the reasons the crew shot at the Adams House was because part of the story has to deal with the opulence that comes to Deadwood. The story will also deal with Hearst's first mining manager and from what the crew understood he would have lived in a house like the Adams house.