Deadwood

Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West

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15 hours, 432 pages

English language

Published by Knopf.

ISBN:
979-8-217-16634-3
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Peter Cozzens unveils the true face of Deadwood, South Dakota, the storied mining town that sprang up in early 1876 and came raining down in ashes only three years later, destined to become food for the imagination and a nostalgic landmark.

Deadwood reveals how one frontier town came to embody the best and worst of the West—a relic of humanity’s eternal quest to create order from chaos, a greater good from individual greed, and security from violence.

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Subjects

  • Nonfiction
  • History
  • United States History
  • 19th Century United States History
  • Black Hills
  • Gold Rush