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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John D McDermott |
| ISBN: | 0962262196 9780962262197 |
| OCLC Number: | 48100194 |
| Description: | 144 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The military problem and the Black Hills, 1874-1875 / by John D. McDermott -- Wake up Yankton! community efforts to promote travel to the Black Hills gold fields / by Harry H. Anderson -- "I know ... because I was there" : Leander P. Richardson reports the Black Hills gold rush / by James D. McLaird -- It started with a (mining) boom / by Bob Lee -- In Illingworth's footsteps : rediscovery the first photographs of the Black Hills / by Ernest Grafe and Paul Horsted. |
| Responsibility: | compiled and with an introduction by John D. McDermott. |
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Gold Rush: The Black Hills Story
As a collection of short essays on the Black Hills, John McDermott hits the mark of providing both the new reader and the seasoned buffs of the Hills a vision of what it...
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As a collection of short essays on the Black Hills, John McDermott hits the mark of providing both the new reader and the seasoned buffs of the Hills a vision of what it was first like, how the gold rush changed and whole scene and what the visitor can expect by scrambling over rocks and up trails to view key points throughout the Hills. I was especially taken by the chapter, "I Know... because I Was There”, contributed by James McLaird. This expose of the writing of the Journalist Leander P. Richardson shows how a man who was there, albeit for about ten days, can write a plethora of opinions on one town, especially if he just happens to hit the period of time when Wild Bill Hickok was there and was killed. He also recounts Richardson's wagon trek into Deadwood from Fort Laramie on a route that must have been very similar to that taken by my great grandfather, Richard Clow in 1876 when he joined the rush to the hills and struck it rich. The reader will enjoy the other well written essays: by McDermott on the Military situation with the Sioux, by Anderson on the businessmen and women who took the risks to start up and advertise whole towns and businesses that often raked in much more cash than the mining operations, Bob Lee's description of the progression from mining into agriculture and farming, and finally, Graf and Horsted's picture essay of what it was like and what it looks like now. Read it! It makes a good travel companion for flavor on a trip through the Black Hills.
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