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Deadwood saints and sinners / by Jerry L. Bryant and Barbara Fifer.

Bryant, Jerry L., 1945-2015 (author.). Fifer, Barbara, (author.).

Summary:

Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane get all the press, but Deadwood was as rich in remarkable and eccentric personalities as it was in ore. Authors Bryant and Fifer have mined the archives for obscure (and true!) tales of murderous women, artful con men, woebegone children, an African American orator, a determined temperance activist, and a lovesick assayer. Discover Deadwood as it really was! -- Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 9781560376460
Physical Description: 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Helena, MT : Farcountry Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references(pages 202) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Deadwood saints and sinners -- Before Deadwood: people come and gone -- A trip down the Gulch with Barker, the Black Hills hermit -- Adrienne Davis: a woman among the miners -- Chambers Davis: the brief life of Deadwood's first assayer -- Con Stapleton: Deadwood's first marshal -- Sarah Ann Erb: madame of the bulldog ranches -- Mollie Johnson: queen of the blondes -- Elizabeth Lovell: Amazon of Elizabethtown -- Justin Cachlin: Frenchy the bottle fiend -- Henrico Livingstone: obstructionist extraordinaire -- General Samuel Fields: political aspirant -- Cynthia E. Cleveland: an activist in the Dakotas -- The Flormanns: in the grip of gold fever -- Young Jim: a Deadwood waif -- E.B. Farnum: Deadwood's first mayor -- The first decade of Deadwood's public schools: 1876-1886 -- The telephone comes to Deadwood -- The locomotive J.B. Haggin.