the gem prospered, bringing in an average of $5,000 a night, even reaching as high as $10,000. swearengen forged alliances with many of deadwood's most prominent citizens, buying himself immunity from legal or other problems. his immunity even extended to the notoriously upright and incorruptible marshal seth bullock, who did not have the political clout to extend his campaign to clean up the town as far as the lower regions of main street, which remained swearengen's territory.