Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West by Peter Cozzens instant download

Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West by Peter Cozzens instant download

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and there is no
better illustration of this than is to be found in the dealings of
the American government and people with the Indians. The
Black Hills will send forth their treasures in gold, and the Sioux
will scarcely be missed in the march of progress and wealth.
But the Anglo-Saxon were a wiser and a better man if he cared
a little more for [other] races, and a little less for himself.
—Edwin Curley, Curley’s Guide to the Black Hills
Indians might inhabit the [Black Hills] for centuries and there
would be only the change that Nature wrought. But in three
short years, the white men have so destroyed its natural
attractions that neither Indians nor game would now choose it
as an abiding place. The hills are denuded…the gulches dug
and washed out, and all for the sake of gold that is said to be
only lucre, and filthy at that.
—Special Correspondent, Green Bay Advocate, May 1, 1879
I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
—Stephen Vincent Benét, “American Names”