Contents
[I The Black Hills: The Forbidden Land] 1 [II The Formation of the Black Hills] 15 [III The Hills Today] 27 [IV History I: Indians and Gold] 47 [V History II: Deadwood Days] 78 [VI The White River Badlands] 115 [ Bibliography] 126 [ Index] 127
Illustrations
[Along the Needles Highway] facing page 34 [Harney Peak—older by ages than the Rockies] 35 [The Four Great Faces: Mount Rushmore Memorial] 50 [Sylvan Lake mirrors great granite shields at an elevation of 6,250 feet] 51 [Calamity Jane, during her carnival days] 82 [Wild Bill Hickok, from an early portrait] 82 [Cheyenne—Black Hills Stage carrying bullion guarded by shotgun messengers] 82 [Deadwood Gulch in 1881] 83 [Modern Deadwood—seventy years later] 83 [One of the Black Hills’ many streams] 98 [The Badlands: Desolate, empty, and seared] 99