The show is an allegory for how societies form. It watches a group of isolated individuals slowly coalesce into a community. They build alliances not out of goodness, but out of necessity. It asks: Is civilization built on laws, or is it built on mutual self-interest?

: This paper analyzes the series through the lens of post-9/11 politics, arguing that the camp of Deadwood represents a "state of exception" where extralegal violence is used to establish state power. Download/Read on Academia.edu Deadwood: A Genre Analysis

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: This study utilizes deadwood stems to create tree-ring chronologies that date back to AD 815, helping researchers model paleoclimate.