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Gold in the Black Hills
by Watson Parker
The purpose of this guide book is to share some of the locations, areas and techniques to enable the average person to go out and pan for gold in the historic Black Hills; to experience first hand the adventure, excitement and thrill of searching for treasure. Would it not be nice for everyone who so desires to go panning and the thrill of suddenly seeing the gleam of gold "jump out of the pan at you" as an old sourdough explained.

$17.95

Homestake Lode
by G. Sam Carr
It's 1878 in the wild American West, and people do what they can to make decent lives for themselves. Tuck Powells is a stoic Wells Fargo detective hired to protect a rich mine owner, George Hearst. Kelly Ryan is a spirited young actress headed west to make her fortune in the theater. Tuck and Kelly are thrown together tumultuous stagecoach ride from San Francisco to Deadwood, Wyoming.
In Deadwood, Kelly discovers that her acting job is actually as a waitress in a brothel. She ends up killing a lecherous customer in self-defense. Tuck rescues her and helps her to safety, kindling a spark between them that can only grow stronger. Hearst, meanwhile, is slowly building a mining empire that will eventually be the largest in the country, if he can outsmart his devious competitors at the DeSmet Mining Company.
After they've weathered fires, avalanches and snowstorms, Tuck tells Kelly that he's too old for her. She rejects him, and Tuck decides to return to San Francisco with Hearst. But when a flash flood threatens to wipe out the town where Kelly lives, Tuck knows he has no choice but to go back for her.

$19.99

The Real Deadwood
by John Ames
The Black Hills of the Dakota Territory - sacred grounds for the Lakota, and one of the richest sections of land the world has ever known. With "easy color" ripe for the taking, the population of the gold rush town of Deadwood jumped from eight hundred to over ten thousand, as over a million dollars of gold was pulled from the ground between June and July of 1876. With no law, no order, and a volatile collection of inhabitants still recovering from the Civil War, there weren't enough pigs in Chinatown to dispose of all the bodies.
Not since the first signs of color have so many people flocked to Deadwood, only now they're tuning in to the acclaimed HBO series of the same name. With a cast of historically rich characters, The Real Deadwood explores the lives of "Wild Bill" Hickok, Al Swearengen, Calamity Jane, Sol Star, and a host of others. A historical crossroad of the American West, even Wyatt Earp came to Deadwood, only to bump heads with Seth Bullok. Other celebrated visitors over the years include Buffalo Bill Cody, the Sundance Kid, Bat Masterson, and Teddy Roosevelt. Looking at a world of primitive medicine, prostitution and law from lawlessness, The Real Deadwood separates the facts from the fiction in its overview of a town violent enough to rival the likes of Tombstone, Dodge City and Abilene.
"Poor man's diggings" is what it was called; how it was found, taken and swindled away is the story of life on the frontier - when roughing it was truly rough. It's good versus evil and civilization versus anarchy. It's the real Deadwood.

$9.95

Soiled Doves
by Anne Seagraves
Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early west - wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good and bad and many were as wild as the land they came to tame.
Women like "Molly b' Dam," Mattie Silks, and "Chicago Joe" blended into the fabric of the American Frontier with an easy familiarity. Others, such as "Sorrel Mike," escaped through suicide, Lottie Johl chose marriage and the Chinese slave girls lived a life without hope.

$11.95