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by Peter Cozzens

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The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as "the most diabolical town on earth" and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane to Al Swearingen and Sheriff Seth Bullock.

"In these pungent pages, you can smell the whiskey, the gunsmoke, the horse lather, the gold dust, and the mining chemicals . . . A fine non-fiction narrative that's as alluring as its subject." --Hampton Sides

"If you thought HBO's television series of the same name was hyperbolic, buckle in . . . The TV characters were all real and they're all here . . . Milch's Deadwood is Shakespearean; Cozzens's is all verifiable fact, yet it loses nothing in the straighter telling . . . [A] fast-paced and unbelievable-if-it-weren't-true story." --Carl Hoffman, The Washington Post

Sifting through layers and layers of myth and legend--from nineteenth-century dime novels like Deadwood Dick, to HBO prestige dramas to the casino billboards outside of present-day Deadwood--Peter Cozzens unveils the true face of Deadwood, South Dakota, the storied mining town that sprang up in early 1876 and came raining down in ashes only three years later, destined to become food for the imagination and a nostalgic landmark that now brings in more than two and a half million visitors each year.

That Western romance, we're reminded by Cozzens--the prizewinning author of The Earth Is Weeping--retains its allure only as long as we willfully ignore the town's foundational sins. 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 or subject to U.S. laws or governance. This gave rise to the gunslinging, stagecoach robbing, whiskey guzzling, rampant prostitution, and gambling Deadwood is known for. But it also bred a self-reliance and a spirit of cooperation unique on the frontier, and made it an exceptionally welcoming place for Black Americans and Chinese immigrants at a time of deep-seated discrimination.

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--a relic of humanity's eternal quest to create order from chaos, a greater good from individual greed, and security from violence.

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  • Title Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West
  • Author Peter Cozzens
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publication date 2025-08-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780593537855 / 0593537858
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.7 x 1.5 in (23.88 x 17.02 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Deadwood (S.D.) - History - 19th century, Frontier and pioneer life - South Dakota -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2024047126
  • Dewey Decimal Code 978.391

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  • Booklist, 07/01/2025, Page 14
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2025, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 08/23/2025, Page 0

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PETER COZZENS is the author or editor of eighteen acclaimed books on the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. In 2002 he was awarded the American Foreign Service Association's highest honor, the William R. Rivkin Award, given annually to one foreign service officer for exemplary moral courage, integrity, and creative dissent. He lives in Kensington, Maryland.

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