Pioneer years in the Black Hills.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Richard B., 1856-1930.
Other Authors: Spring, Agnes Wright, 1894-1988.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Glendale, Calif., A.H. Clark Co., 1957.
Series:Western frontiersmen series ; 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt.1. To the hills
  • Bound for the hills
  • A change of plans and route
  • Old Red Cloud Agency
  • The Cheyene River-a midnight alarm
  • First view of Custer and surroundings
  • From Custer to Deadwood
  • The end of our journey
  • pt.2. Life in the Black Hills country
  • My first prospecting trip
  • Prospecting dry gulches
  • Deadwood, biggest little town on earth
  • "Sam's mine," the Great Homestake, and stampedes of '76
  • A provisional government-"Judge" Franham's court
  • One of the first reporters in the Hills
  • General Crook comes to Deadwood, 1876
  • Hunting expeditions
  • Camping companions-End of our partnership
  • Father comes to the Hills
  • Road agents of the early days
  • pt.3. Rapid City-Home for more than forty years
  • Becoming an editor
  • Mining swindles
  • Indian trouble-Battle of Wounded Knee
  • A pioneer wins honors
  • Appx.A. Diary of Richard B. Hughes, 1876-1877, and two letters
  • Appx.B. Sam Tull
  • Appx.C Sidney, Nebraska, to Harney's Peak, 1875
  • Appx.D Montana men in the hills
  • Appx.E. Some mines in the hills.