First Title value, for Searching:
Deadwood : gold, guns, and greed in the American West
First Author value, for Searching:
Cozzens, Peter, 1957- author.
General Note:
"A Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
Format:
Libros
Abstract:
"Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West is the first book dedicated the story of early Deadwood. It also probes timeless subjects such as race and sex, crime and punishment, religion and recreation, and everyday life in a manner that will immerse readers in the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of the frontier West"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
List of maps -- Prologue -- Part I: Visions of Deadwood (ca. 1770-April 1876). Pahá Sápa ; The new El Dorado ; No sale ; Gold in the gulch -- Part II: A town built on gold (Mary 1876-February 1877). Centennial town ; Lies and legends ; "Take that, damn you" ; Lakota autumn ; The Montana touch ; The day of jubilee ; A hard winter -- Part III: A tumultuous adolescence (March-December 1877). Autocrats and tenderfeet ; Deadwood's Chinatown ; The brigands of the Black Hills ; The most diabolical town on Earth ; San Francisco capitalists and soiled doves ; Reckonings -- Part IV: From adolescence to ashes (January 1878-September 1879). Coming of age ; The treasure coach ; A solid country ; The great water fight ; Black Friday -- Epilogue.
Tema:
| Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota -- Deadwood. |
| Deadwood (S.D.) -- History -- 19th century. |
| West (U.S.) -- 19th century -- History. |
| États-Unis (Ouest) -- 19e siècle -- Histoire. |
| HIS036040. |
| HIS028000. |
Summary:
"Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West is the first book dedicated the story of early Deadwood. It also probes timeless subjects such as race and sex, crime and punishment, religion and recreation, and everyday life in a manner that will immerse readers in the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of the frontier West"--
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