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Like most works of historical fiction, the HBO series "Deadwood" takes some liberties with the characters, even those based on real people, for the sake of telling a compelling story. Some characters' real lives were so legendary that the show could keep them true to history and keep an audience captivated, like Wild Bill and Calamity Jane.

Others are only loosely based on real people, like Trixie who represents many working girls with similar monikers. And still more have only a name or part of a name that is borrowed from antiquity. Finally, as is the case with Alma Garret and Whitney Ellsworth, there are characters who are complete works of fiction created solely for the series.

With that in mind here are 10 significant real life figures from the town of Deadwood compared to their portrayal in the series of the same name. Jack McCall's portrayal by Garret Dillahunt was quite accurate in the series when compared to historical accounts. McCall's claim to fame was that he shot Wild Bill Hickok. Much like in the series, McCall was known for being a blithering drunk who gambled away any money he came upon.

In fact, if he hadn't shot Hickok history would have forgotten him altogether.

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The scene in which McCall shoots Hickok is right out of the history books. McCall waited until a seat opened up at the poker game Wild Bill was playing, he then took it and proceeded to lose every dime he had to Hickok. Bill, not being completely unsympathetic, threw McCall a few bucks advising him to buy a meal and stay away from the game.

The next day when Hickock came into Nutall's saloon and sat with his back to the door, McCall seized his opportunity and shot Wild Bill in the back of the head shouting "damn you, take that! A hasty trial was put on in Deadwood which acquitted McCall on the grounds of revenge, McCall claimed Hickock killed his brother in Kansas, the most Wild West defense there is.