Pioneer Days In The Black Hills

Author : John S. McClintock
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806131917
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Days in the Black Hills written by John S. McClintock and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announced that he had found gold "among the roots of the grass." Almost overnight a number of settlements sprang into existence. Among them was Deadwood. In April 1876, John S. McClintock arrived in search of gold. Entering a series of speculations and employments that won him moderate prosperity, he made Deadwood his home. During his later years, he wrote his memoirs, presented here for the first time in half a century.

Author : Richard B. Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Years in the Black Hills written by Richard B. Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Haber Stanton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738577814
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Pioneers of the Black Hills Gold Rush written by Ann Haber Stanton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very name Deadwood conjures up vivid Wild West images: saloons with swinging doors, brazen dance-hall girls, buckskin-clad Calamity Jane roaming the streets with her erstwhile paramour, Wild Bill Hickok. The setting is the lawless Dakota Territory of 1876 at the start of the Black Hills gold rush, a stampede for the golden pay dirt. One would hardly expect to find a Jewish pioneer grocer named Jacob Goldberg in this scene, yet Deadwood's story is incomplete without Goldberg. And Goldberg's story is incomplete without either Calamity Jane or Wild Bill. Not just Goldberg, but Finkelstein (also known as Franklin), Stern (also known as Star), Jacobs, Schwarzwald, Colman, Hattenbach, and many other Jews joined the throngs. The Jews provided much more than overalls, chamberpots, and the chambers in which to put them. They also became the mayors, legislators, and civic leaders who helped bring sense and stability to this unruly expanse.

Author : Barbara C. Fifer
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560375485
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Boys of the Black Hills: And Some Wild Women, Too written by Barbara C. Fifer and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively romp details some of the Wild West's most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and fugitives. Readers will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.

Author : Levi Judson Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Years of His Life a Blank written by Levi Judson Ross and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Watson Parker
Publisher : SDSHS Press
ISBN 13 : 0985281766
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold in the Black Hills written by Watson Parker and published by SDSHS Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jesse Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Hills Trails written by Jesse Brown and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184671
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assault on the Deadwood Stage written by Robert K. DeArment and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the "good guys and bad guys" behind these violent crimes: the road agents who wreaked havoc on Deadwood's roadways and the shotgun messengers who battled to protect stagecoach passengers and their valuable cargo. DeArment shows in dramatic detail how for two years gangs of robbers ruled the road, perpetrating holdups and killings, until lawmen and stage-company and railroad agents finally brought an end to the mayhem. The characters populating this violent tale include such legendary figures as Wild Bill Hickok and the famous railroad detective James L. "Whispering" Smith, a formidable opponent of bandits. We also get to know the men who operated the stages, the lawmen and company men who ran and defended the coaches, and the outlaws who fought against them. DeArment tells where these men came from and what became of them after the outlawry ended. He ends his account in the 1880s with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and its spectacular rendition of a shotgun robbery, featuring an actual Deadwood stagecoach. After nearly a century and a half, the Deadwood stage continues to command our attention.

Author : Annie D. Tallent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Hills written by Annie D. Tallent and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149306147X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Open Secret written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of gold in the southern Black Hills in 1874 set off one of the great gold rushes in America. In 1876, miners moved into the northern Black Hills. That’s where they came across a gulch full of dead trees and a creek full of gold and Deadwood was born. Practically overnight, the tiny gold camp boomed into a town that played by its own rules and attracted outlaws, gamblers, and gunslingers along with the gold seekers. Deadwood was comprised mostly of single men. In the beginning the ratio of men to women was as high as 8 to 1. The lack of affordable housing, the hostile environment, the high cost of travel, and the expense of living in Deadwood prevented many men from bringing their wives, girlfriends, and families to the growing town. Hordes of prostitutes and madams came to Deadwood to capitalize on the lack of women. By the mid-1880s, there were more than a hundred brothels in the mining community. One of the most notorious cat houses in Deadwood was owned and operated by Al Swearengen. Swearengen was an entertainment entrepreneur who opened a house of ill-repute shortly after he arrived in town in the spring of 1876. Initially known as The Gem, the brothel was host to several well-known soiled doves of the Old West from Eleanora Dumont to Kitty LeRoy. Among the many madams who ran other cat houses in and around Deadwood were Poker Alice Tubbs, Mert O’Hara, and Gertrude Bell. The names of some of the most popular brothels in Deadwood Gulch were the Shy-Ann Room, Fern’s Place, The Cozy Room, the Beige Door, and the Shasta Room. After more than a hundred years of continual operation, the brothels in Deadwood were forced to close in 1980. In the summer of 2020, the Beige Door reopened for business. This time as a museum. The Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission, the Main Street Initiative Committee, and Deadwood History, Inc. (DHI) developed the idea of opening the only brothel tour in the Black Hills. The Brothel Deadwood has had a steady flow of visitors since the tour opened The book An Open Secret: The Story of Deadwood’s Most Notorious Bordellos focuses on infamous cat houses like the Beige Door, those individuals who managed the businesses, their employees, their well-known clientele, the various crimes committed at the locations, and their ultimate demise.