Bad Boys of the Black Hills: ...and Some Wild Women, Too - Paperback

by Barbara Fifer (Author), Jerry Bryant (Introduction by)

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.

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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.

- Profiles more than 95 bad boys, wild women, and engaging events from the 1870s Black Hills

- Features foreword by Jerry Bryant, research curator and historical archaeologist, Adams Museum and House, Black Hills, South Dakota

- Includes 20 historical photographs

- Features extensive timeline of Black Hills events

- Includes map of Deadwood in the 1870s, as well as a map of the Black Hills

- Perfect for lovers of history and visitors to the Black Hills region