Deadwood Saints and Sinners

by Jerry L. Bryant

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!

232 pages, Paperback

Published March 16, 2016

Reviews

[Irene · Rating 3 out of 5]

Each chapter introduced a different aspect of life in the mining town of Deadwood in the 1870s by highlighting a different resident. This was not a systematic or thorough study of frontier life, but, by putting human faces into the story, it made a moment in history more personal.

[Mary Ann Dumhart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting ,

[Tiffany L · Rating 5 out of 5]

GREAT Book - there were several people written about that I had never heard of.

[Pepper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable true stories taken from newspapers' articles about a handful of characters who resided in Deadwood in the late 1800s. This book took me back to the 1800s as if I were living there, quite interesting and reads almost like short novellas.