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Title

Bad boys of the Black Hills : ...and some wild women, too / by Barbara Fifer ; introduction by Jerry Bryant.

Author

Fifer, Barbara.

Publication

Helena, Mont. : Farcountry Press, c2008.

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Description

xviii, 189 p. ; ill. , map; 23 cm.

Summary

Welcome to the Black Hills of the 1880s, where you will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.

Subject

• Frontier and pioneer life > Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Anecdotes
• Pioneers > Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Biography
• Outlaws > Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Biography
• Brigands and robbers > Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Biography
• Rogues and vagabonds > Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Biography
• Prostitutes > Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Biography
• Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > History > 19th century > Anecdotes
• Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Social life and customs > 19th century > Anecdotes
• Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Biographies
• History
• Anecdotes.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface -- Introduction -- Timeline. The main road, a treasure coach & brothels: Metropolises at road's ends -- Paying by the pinch -- Black Hills trail -- Concord coaches -- The Monitor -- "Rescue of the Deadwood Stage" -- Pony Expresses everywhere -- Brothels along the stage road -- Wyatt Earp. Law-abiding bad boys: George Armstrong Custer -- The earliest miners -- James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok -- Samuel Fields -- John B. "Johnny" Owens -- Scott "Quick Shot" Davis -- Vigilantes. Killers intentional & not: Tom Milligan -- William F. "Persimmon Bill" Chambers -- H.E. "Stuttering" Brown -- Jack McCall -- Harry "Sam" Young -- Richard "Banjo Dick" Brown -- Boone May -- Two murder/suicides in the name of love. Charles Wilson & Kitty Clide ; Sam Curley & Kitty Leroy --^
• William (Bill) Gay. Robbers, rustlers & plain old thieves: Triple robberies & some murders. Robert "Little Reddy" McKimie ; Bill Bevans ; Clark Pelton ; Samuel S. "Laughing Sam" Hartman ; Dunc Blackburn & James Wall ; James Wall spares an old friend -- Sam Bass & Joel Collins -- Jack Bowman & Jack Bowman -- Prescott Webb -- Cornelius "Lame Johnny" Donahue -- Frank Warren -- Whoopup Canyon robbery. John H. "Johnny" Brown ; George W. Keating & Orbean Davis ; Charley Ross -- The Monitor is robbed at Canyon Springs. Thomas Jefferson "Duck" Goodale ; William "Billy" Mansfield & Archie McLaughlin ; Al Spears ; Charles Carey ; Frank McBride ; Andy "Red Cloud" Gouch ; The Monitor's fate -- Frank K. Towle -- William "Curly" Grimes -- Harry Longsbaugh -- The Wild Bunch falls in Bell Fourch. Entertainments high & low: The game of faro -- Chuck-a-luck -- Not-so-spoiled doves -- "Hit it, Perfessor!" -- The Gem & other variety theaters -- Jack Langrishe & company -- Words for wicked women --^
• Monday afternoons for shopping -- A drink on the house -- Ace Moyer, Con Moyer & "Big Steve" Long -- Adolph Cuny & Jules Coffey -- Porter's hotel -- Al Swearingen. Frail sisters of the frontier: Cats for the houses -- Georgia Dow -- Martha "Calamity Jane" Cannary -- Kitty Austin (Arnold) -- Little Frank -- Mollie Johnson -- Madam Mustache -- Charlotte Shepherd -- Pearl Leopold -- Fannie Hill -- Dora Dufran. More wild women: Lurline Monte Verde -- Henrico Livingstone -- Inez Sexton -- Madam Bulldog -- Mrs. Brennan -- Mrs. Hayes -- Sue Neill -- Maggie Laughlin -- Poker Alice Tubbs. Tall-tale tellers: William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody -- Captain Jack Crawford -- Dime novels -- Deadwood Dick -- Nat Love -- Edward L. Wheeler -- Edward Zane Caroll Judson -- Prentiss Ingraham. Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781560374350 (softcover)
• 1560374357 (softcover)

LCCN

^^2008018621

OCLC

• 226966527
• SCSB-12507192

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library