Peter Cozzens is the author of over eighteen books on the Civil War and the American West. He recently retired after thirty years as a Foreign Service Officer with the U. S. Department of State. His previous book, The Earth Is Weeping, was awarded the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. The Warrior and the Prophet was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Biography.

Both an enjoyable and a serious book.

• Part I: Visions of Deadwood (ca. 1770-April 1876) 1: Pahá Sápa 2: The New El Dorado 3: No Sale 4: Gold in the Gulch Part II: A Town Built on Gold (May 1876-February 1877) 5: Centennial Town 6: Lies and Legends 7: "Take That, Damn You" 8: Lakota Autumn 9: The Montana Touch 10: The Day of Jubilee 11: A Hard Winter Part III: A Tumultuous Adolescence (March-December 1877) 12: Autocrats and Tenderfeet 13: Deadwood's Chinatown 14: The Brigands of the Black Hills 15: The Most Diabolical Town on Earth 16: San Francisco Capitalists and Soiled Doves 17: Reckonings Part IV: From Adolescence to Ashes (January 1878-September 1879) 18: Coming of Age 19: The Treasure Coach 20: A Solid Country 21: The Great Water Fight 22: Black Friday Epilogue: Epilogue

Peter Cozzens is the author of over eighteen books on the Civil War and the American West. He recently retired after thirty years as a Foreign Service Officer with the U. S. Department of State. His previous book, The Earth Is Weeping, was awarded the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. The Warrior and the Prophet was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Biography.

Both an enjoyable and a serious book.

• Part I: Visions of Deadwood (ca. 1770-April 1876) 1: Pahá Sápa 2: The New El Dorado 3: No Sale 4: Gold in the Gulch Part II: A Town Built on Gold (May 1876-February 1877) 5: Centennial Town 6: Lies and Legends 7: "Take That, Damn You" 8: Lakota Autumn 9: The Montana Touch 10: The Day of Jubilee 11: A Hard Winter Part III: A Tumultuous Adolescence (March-December 1877) 12: Autocrats and Tenderfeet 13: Deadwood's Chinatown 14: The Brigands of the Black Hills 15: The Most Diabolical Town on Earth 16: San Francisco Capitalists and Soiled Doves 17: Reckonings Part IV: From Adolescence to Ashes (January 1878-September 1879) 18: Coming of Age 19: The Treasure Coach 20: A Solid Country 21: The Great Water Fight 22: Black Friday Epilogue: Epilogue

Peter Cozzens is the author of over eighteen books on the Civil War and the American West. He recently retired after thirty years as a Foreign Service Officer with the U. S. Department of State. His previous book, The Earth Is Weeping, was awarded the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. The Warrior and the Prophet was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Biography.

Both an enjoyable and a serious book.

• Part I: Visions of Deadwood (ca. 1770-April 1876) 1: Pahá Sápa 2: The New El Dorado 3: No Sale 4: Gold in the Gulch Part II: A Town Built on Gold (May 1876-February 1877) 5: Centennial Town 6: Lies and Legends 7: "Take That, Damn You" 8: Lakota Autumn 9: The Montana Touch 10: The Day of Jubilee 11: A Hard Winter Part III: A Tumultuous Adolescence (March-December 1877) 12: Autocrats and Tenderfeet 13: Deadwood's Chinatown 14: The Brigands of the Black Hills 15: The Most Diabolical Town on Earth 16: San Francisco Capitalists and Soiled Doves 17: Reckonings Part IV: From Adolescence to Ashes (January 1878-September 1879) 18: Coming of Age 19: The Treasure Coach 20: A Solid Country 21: The Great Water Fight 22: Black Friday Epilogue: Epilogue