swearengen (played by ian mcshane) and the gem are both portrayed in the hbo television show, "deadwood" (2004–2006) and "" (2019), but in heavily modified form. the show's fictional gem saloon is already well-established when the show begins in august 1876 and in the movie, which takes place in 1889, it is implied that swearengen dies due to liver failure in his bed upstairs in the saloon (the real swearengen was murdered in denver in 1904) and that he leaves the saloon to a former prostitute named trixie, a character who is not based on any one real life person and was created for the series.