Bad Boys of the Black Hills: And Some Wild Women, Too
- ISBN-10
- 1560375485
- ISBN-13
- 9781560375487
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-04-01
- Publisher
- Farcountry Press
- Author
- Barbara C. Fifer
Description
The lively romp details some of the Wild West's most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and fugitives. Readers will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.
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