Historian Peter Cozzens “Deadwood: Gold, Guns and Greed in the American West”

Sifting through layers and layers of myth and legend, prize-winning historian Peter Cozzens unveils the true face of Deadwood, South Dakota. Built on land brazenly stolen from the Lakotas, Deadwood was not merely a place where outlaws lurked, like Tombstone or Dodge City, but was itself an outlaw enterprise, not part of any U.S. territory. This gave rise to the gunslinging, stagecoach robbing, whiskey guzzling, and gambling Deadwood is known for. The first book to tell this complex story in full, “Deadwood” reveals how one frontier town came to embody the best and worst of the West.

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