Old Deadwood Days
eBook - ePub

Old Deadwood Days

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Old Deadwood Days

About this book

For roughnecks in search of trouble, Deadwood was the place to go. An outlaw town—its very beginnings as a mining camp violated government treaties with the Sioux—Deadwood soon acquired a reputation that dime novels could hardly exaggerate. It attracted both the great and the gritty. Calamity Jane lived there, Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back there and Buffalo Bill was an irregular visitor, not to mention Seth Bullock, Mineral Jack, Slippery Sam, Cold Deck Johnny, and Belle Haskell, the best-known madam in town. To reform the town's notorious habits, Federal Judge Granville G. Bennett moved to Deadwood with his family in 1877, and his young daughter, Estelline, grew up with the town. She saw it change from a congeries of horse thieves, claim jumpers, road agents, painted ladies, and slick or shabby gamblers to a middle-class railroad town, a little dazed by its history and success. Her story of the settlement that grew up around Deadwood Gulch remains one of the finest and fullest accounts of the taming of the West.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Characters
  6. The Illustrations in this Book
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Chapter I: A Little Girl in Old Deadwood
  10. Chapter II: A Deadwood Judge
  11. Chapter III: On the Long, Long Trails
  12. Chapter IV: Footlights of the Frontier
  13. Chapter V: Gentlemen of the Green Cloth
  14. Chapter VI: Sky Pilots of the Hills
  15. Chapter VII: The Mother of the Badlands
  16. Chapter VIII: When Calamity Jane Came Home
  17. Chapter IX: The Stagecoach Aristocracy
  18. Chapter X: When the Railroad Came
  19. Back Cover