On June 21, 1951, more than 5,000 spectators celebrated Deadwood's seventy-fifth anniversary and honored James Butler, "Wild Bill" Hickok, with a day of events that included a pancake feed, a parade, band concerts, a reenactment of Hickok's murder, and a costume contest. Hollywood actors Guy Madison, Gail Russell, and Andy Devine took part in the celebration, and the day's central event was the unveiling of a Wild Bill Hickok bust carved by Korczak Ziolkowski, sculptor of the Crazy Horse monument. Deadwood businessman George Hunter commissioned the work, which Ziolkowski carved from Black Hills granite from the Crazy Horse monument north of Custer, South Dakota. The two-ton granite block took six months and 648 bits to shape into Hickok's likeness, based on a photographic portrait from about 1873–1874 showing him in a fur cap. Although intended for Mount Moriah Cemetery, the sculpture was placed at a site reportedly associated with Hickok and Charley Utter's 1876 camp. By about 1955 it was one of Deadwood's first pieces of public art, and in the 1990s the bust and its base were restored with Historic Preservation funds.