Jewish Pioneers of the Black Hills Gold Rush

by Ann Haber Stanton

Book Overview

The very name Deadwood conjures up vivid Wild West images: saloons with swinging doors, brazen dance-hall girls, buckskin-clad Calamity Jane roaming the streets with her erstwhile paramour, Wild Bill Hickok. The setting is the lawless Dakota Territory of 1876 at the start of the Black Hills gold rush, a stampede for the golden pay dirt. One would hardly expect to find a Jewish pioneer grocer named Jacob Goldberg in this scene, yet Deadwood's story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738577812
• ISBN13: 9780738577814
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"