Contents
Albert N. Williams
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
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