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Chapter Two Tin-roofed shacks, brush houses, tents and wagons made into temporary sleeping quarters dotted the steep, wooded sides of Deadwood Gulch like debris scattered after a storm.

It was only on the floor of the gulch, the single main street of Deadwood proper, that the structures became real buildings.

Claire had never confided in Mattie how she had ended up ill and without money on the streets of Deadwood where Mattie had found her.

And, though women were scarce in Deadwood, she suspected he could find a few ran chef daughters in the surrounding territory who would be plenty happy to give him their company for nothing.

It felt good to be embarked on a project that would lead to a better life for the settlers who would become the real citizens of Deadwood once the gold panned out.

And if he could straighten out Deadwood, he ought to be able to straighten out his own life, too.

Bring his wife to town, parade her around as his mistress in front of all the respectable citizens of Deadwood and hope that that would make Gabe do whatever he said.

Dris-coil in Deadwood last week created a stir all the way to the territorial government in Yankton.

Author Note Shortly after the smallpox epidemic in the fall of 1876, the Deadwood Board of Health and Street Commissioners made themselves into a real city council and began the process of turning the town into a diverse community that, through the years, has retained the flavor of those early wild West days.

This far out, there was deadwood aplenty and no felled trees marking where folk from the village came out to get firewood.

Elizabeth learned to strip kindling with her fingers from a birch trunk, locate deadwood, and although she was terribly slow at it, to start a fire with flint and iron.

To her right was a vast tangle of dreary tamarack and cedar interspersed with deadwood, bracken, and thorny shrubs.

The constant drone and cackle of woodpeckers was replaced by the creaking of deadwood in the buffeting winds.

Where now a crowd of children fed deadwood into a growing bonfire, he had once watched a hawk and an eagle wage a screaming battle over a mallard.

Raif collected firewood with haste, not bothering to search out finer-burning deadwood when greenwood was closer to hand.