Deadwood: 1876-1976

by Bev Pechan, Bill Groethe

Overview

Think about the most romantically notorious Wild West town you ever heard of, and most likely Deadwood would head the list. Deadwood has more than its share of legends, heroes, and brigands who traveled through or made their homes here: Wild Bill and Calamity Jane to be sure, but also Buffalo Bill, Wyatt Earp, Captain Jack Crawford (the "Poet Scout"), California Joe, Seth Bullock, Poker Alice, and many more. No other frontier town—not Dodge City, Tombstone, Abilene, or Cripple Creek—could claim them all. Deadwood is the champion, and was the happening place in the late 1870s. This legacy lives on today as casino gambling—perhaps ironically but fittingly—financed the preservation of historic downtown Deadwood begining in 1989, an area that is now designated a National Historic Landmark.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738539799
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	10/19/2005
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,042,597
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Author Bev Pechan and photographer Bill Groethe have teamed up for their second Images of America title. Their first, Remembering Rapid City, was published in 2002. Pechan is also the author of Arcadia's Sturgis, South Dakota: 1878-1960.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	6
	Introduction	7
1	Early Deadwood	9
2	Colorful Characters	27
3	Lead City	41
4	The Homestake Mine	51
5	Deadwood's Later Years	67
6	Golden Gulches	89
7	Days of '76	103
8	Ghost Towns and Abandoned Places	117