About the Book: Deadwood
What Peter Cozzens has done with this remarkable book is to show us that the
truth about Deadwood is, in fact, even more interesting than the myth. S. C.
Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon
Infamous for its stage-coach robbing, whiskey-guzzling and rampant
prostitution, the gold rush settlement of Deadwood, South Dakota, was once
described as the most diabolical town on Earth. Built in 1876 on land brazenly
stolen from the Lakota people, it was an outlaw enterprise not subject to US
laws or governance.
In Deadwood, award-winning historian Peter Cozzens sifts through