Pioneer Years in the Black Hills (Abridged, Annotated)

Perhaps no one wrote as well about the wild and raucous early days of pioneering the Black Hills of Dakota like Richard Hughes. Arriving in the Hills in 1876 as a young man, he tried prospecting, mining, cattle ranching, and surveying before settling in Rapid City as one of the premier early journalists of the west.

Writing of the colorful characters, famous people, and dangerous desperadoes he met in the youthful days of Deadwood and Rapid City, Hughes provided an invaluable look into westward expansion at a crucial period.

Here is George Armstrong Custer, General George Crook, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and many more that Hughes saw up close and personal.Fortunately for us, Hughes was a keen observer and writer who has left us one of the most entertaining and fascinating looks at frontier life.

Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the westward expansion that changed the country forever.

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