Bull trains to Deadwood / Chuck Cecil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cecil, Chuck, author.

Series:

Armentrout, David, 1962- Transportation.

Transportation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation--Railroads--History.

Transportation.

Freight and freightage--South Dakota--History.

Freight and freightage.

Freight and freightage--Dakota Territory--History.

Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)--History.

Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.).

Deadwood (S.D.)--History--19th century.

Deadwood (S.D.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 pages) : Illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, [2020]

Summary:

Pandemonium wafted up out of Deadwood Gulch whenever bellowing, muddy oxen teams led wagons rattling into town. For a decade, thousands of bull trains hauled all that miners, settlers and ne'er-do-wells needed to survive in that isolated prairie oasis. The bulls, thousands of them in mile-long, meandering trains, had last known civilization in Fort Pierre, two hundred miles to the east. After weeks on the harsh prairie of the Sioux, the exhausted convoys appeared out of the prairie dust, each team of twenty or more oxen pulling sturdy, white-bonneted wagons filled with provisions. Author Chuck Cecil restores the glory of the near-forgotten yet indispensable symbols of the West that made life possible on the frontier's western fringe.

Contents:

The Gold

The Road

The Freight

The Freighters

The Oxen

The Bullwhackers

The Wagons

The Perils

The Railroads

Appendix A. "A Wagon Train"

Appendix B. Bullwhackers and Freighters.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781439668986

1439668981