books about: deadwood     books:       Deadwood: 1876-1976 (SD) (Images of America)1 review Bev Pechan, Bill Groethe Arcadia Publishing, 2005 Jones-Gonzalez Awesome book for those that like a lot of pictures. If a picture is worth a thousand words...this book says it all.             Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By (Reading Contemporary Television)4 reviews I. B. Tauris, 2006 Another great book in the Reading Contemporary Television series This is the second title in the Reading Contemporary Television series I have read. Like READING SIX FEET UNDER: TV TO DIE FOR, this volume is a collection of thoughful essays written by academics and media scholars while the series was still in progress. The volume on DEADWOOD covers the first two seasons. This means the authors are not fully aware of all the plotlines that will be pursued in ...             Deadwood26 reviews Pete Dexter Vintage, 2005 Recommend Reading I really liked this book. I liked it so much I bought it for two friends even before I finished reading it. There were times I laughed out loud. The author knew how to insert humor without disrupting the story line. I highly recommend this book.             Tales from Deadwood3 reviews Mike Jameson Berkley, 2005 Enjoyable all the way. Very good reading, a page turner, will definetly leave you wanting to read the other two in the series. My advice, buy the other two when you get this one. Pretty close to actual historical events. Great Read             Deadwood: The Golden Years Watson Parker Bison Books, 1981 Deadwood, South Dakota, has been a source of American legend for over one hundred years. European exploration, Indian wars, gold booms and busts, presidential visits, frontier shootouts, and the natural beauty of the surrounding Black Hills have all captured the imagination of Americans and foreigners. Deadwood: The Golden Years recreates the town that assimilated all that its geography, gold, natural disasters, and the extremes of human ...             Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills21 reviews David Milch Bloomsbury USA, 2006 Great Companion to the Series This book was everything I'd hoped for in a companion volume to a television show. Essays by creator David Milch on his thought processes behind the show, great photos - both of the show and of the real Deadwood and its inhabitants, and these great little sections where the actors take a couple pages to talk about what makes their characters tick. All of Deadwood's characters are complex ...             DEADWOOD CITY (Choose Your Own Adventures, No 8)4 reviews Edward Packard Skylark, 1982 Deadwood City I think Deadwood City was great, because you can choose your own way to go. I got a job in the ghost town. I left beforeI got killed. I also got stopped by Indians on the way, I snuck away, stopped at a water hole to drink and fill my canteen. Only a few more more miles and I was in Silver Springs. I got a job from an old friend and that was the end of my story. There are plenty of more mays ...             The Real Deadwood: True Life Histories of Will Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, Outlaw Towns, and Other ...12 reviews John Edwards Ames, John Ames Chamberlain Bros., 2004 Great The book give more insight to the tv show Dead wood....I wish they would not have canceled it....Any way I enjoyed the book quite a bit..and found the grave of one of them...here in St Louis....             Old Deadwood Days: The Real Wild West of My Childhood3 reviews Estelline Bennett The Narrative Press, 2001 Fantastic! Wonderful glimpse into history from a very bright young girl. Names of those long gone are brought back to life in this narrative. Highly recommend! T. Addison             Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones2 reviews Helen Hemphill Front Street, 2008 High adventure for Middle School readers - a great read for boys! Readers will be lassoed into this cowboy novel immediately. Prometheus Jones, an African-American boy who gets the heck out of the South during reconstruction, signs on with his cousin to drive cattle West. Between scrapes with fate and nature, the characters find adventure at every turn whether fighting rivers or protecting their camps in the dark. It's a book that parents and grandparents can ...             South of Deadwood (Louis L'Amour)1 review Louis L'Amour Random House Audio, 1986 Great Story Even Better in Audio! A terrific adaptation! The voice characterizations and audio special effects are excellent. Clear and crisp and easily heard in the environment of a car. You feel the bullets whipping by! The story line is about Chick Bowdrie riding to Deadwood to pick up a prisoner. He meets a girl (of course) and things get a lot more complicated. Especially since the prisoner has friends trying to ...             Tales from Deadwood 3: The Killers (Tales from Deadwood) Mike Jameson Berkley, 2007 They say in a hundred years, Deadwood will be long gone-blown away like prairie dust. They also say Wild Bill Hickok can't be killed. Unless he wants to be. Gem Theater owner Al Swearengen and whorehouse madam Laurette Parkhurst want Wild Bill Hickok killed. They don't want Deadwood-and their dirty profits-cleaned up. But the famous gunman hasn't survived this long on sheer luck. He can only be killed if he deliberately lets his guard ...             Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends (South Dakota Biography Series)2 reviews James D. Mclaird South Dakota State Historical Society, 2008 Quick Reality Check on Wild Bill and Calamity Jane Anyone who enjoys reading about the American West will enjoy Professor McLaird's quick study on Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. His writing is concise and to the point, exploding myths about the two Western characters as he takes you through the chronology of their lives. The structure of the book helps to highlight the minimal connection between the two. Taking Hickok first, Professor ...             Wyoming Whorehouses,The Great (Old West Whorehouse History)3 reviews Tom Lawrence Bucking Horse Press, 2002 Funny and factual This book is not a dirty book. It is simply full of facts gathered by a lot of research. It's not a dirty book or anything like that. Basically if you like obscene trivia, this is the book for you! (Especially if you like cheesy jokes... Lol.)             Wild Bill Hickok: Deadwood City - End of Trail3 reviews Thadd Turner, Thadd M. Turner Universal Publishers, 2001 Great information on Hickok's death. Turner provides some of the best detailed information on Hickok's death inside the No. 10 Saloon. This is not a biography on Hickok, but rather an excellent source guide to early Deadwood and the area events at the time during and immediately following Wild Bill's shooting, which seems to be the author's intent. The detailed narration is very enjoyable and easy to read, and Turner has provided ...             The Deadwood Beetle10 reviews Mylene Dressler Blue Hen Trade, 2002 Intriguing! "The Deadwood Beetle" by Mylene Dressler, G. K. Hall & Co., 2001, Large Type Book. At first, this book appears to be about a little Dutch boy who survived the Holocaust, and, years later spies his mother's sewing table in an antiques store. The store owner, Cora Lowenstein, translates the child's inscription, on the bottom of the table, without knowing that it was Tristan Martens, himself, who ...             Deadwood Dick and the Dime Novels Mildred Fielder Centennial Distributors, 1970 Most of this story was originally published by the Empire Magazine of the Denver Post, November 22, 1964, under the title "The Forbidden Adventures of Deadwood Dick, or Riders of the Purple Prose."             Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane & Calamity Jane's last Adventure - In Deadwood, ... LeClue 22, 2008 The Fact and Fiction of the old west. Believe it or not 'Deadwood' was a real western town and 'Calamity Jane' was a real person that lived in Deadwood. Calamity Jane was made into a mythical character of the old west largely by the writers of the Dime novels and pulp fiction. Calamity Jane was a living legend during her lifetime. This book is a contains both the fact and fiction of Calamity Jane. The introduction is a short biography ...             South of Deadwood / Too Tough to Brand / A Gun for Kilkenny Louis L'Amour Random House Audio, 2008 South of Deadwood Take the stagecoach into Deadwood with Ranger Chick Bowdrie to bring a notorious killer back to Texas - and justice. When he meets a beautiful young woman convinced Curly Starr can clear her brother's name, Bowdrie agrees to help. But first he must elude the rest of Starr's gang who wait for the legendary lawman and his prisoner to leave town - so they can kill them both! Too Tough to Brand Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie was ...             The Deadwood Trail (The Trail Drive)3 reviews Ralph Compton St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1999 Outstanding!! Great feel of the Old West... This rendition of the old west, the "cowboy life", and the genre of the era is well defined in this novel. This is the first book that I have read by Ralph Compton and I cannot wait to start from the beginning of the Trail Series. After reading this, I only wish there was still a time and place where ranchers, cowboys, and trail riding were of common place. It makes you wish you were a part ...              search for books 1876-1976, adventure, adventures, adventurous, america, beetle, biography, calamity, characters, childhood, contemporary, dakota, deadwood, golden, hickock, histories, history, images, kilkenny, killers, lawless, legends, outlaw, reading, stories, television, western, whorehouse, whorehouses, wyoming books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Princess Diana: The Uncrowned Queen we recommend Outstanding!! Great feel of the Old West... leave a comment home  impressum - about us