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- English
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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
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Characters
- The Illustrations in this Book
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter I: A Little Girl in Old Deadwood
- Chapter II: A Deadwood Judge
- Chapter III: On the Long, Long Trails
- Chapter IV: Footlights of the Frontier
- Chapter V: Gentlemen of the Green Cloth
- Chapter VI: Sky Pilots of the Hills
- Chapter VII: The Mother of the Badlands
- Chapter VIII: When Calamity Jane Came Home
- Chapter IX: The Stagecoach Aristocracy
- Chapter X: When the Railroad Came
- Back Cover