Books by Watson Parker

The Black Hills have been famous ever since the gold rush days of 1870s when General George A Custer's expedition in the summer of 1874 found and advertised placer gold in the Black Hills valleys and a rush to the Hills began. This book looks at the remains of those ghosts: the camps, the stage stops, the people who made the Black Hills famous.

Deadwood, South Dakota was a microcosm of the American frontier and the gold rush town. Presenting the history of Deadwood, this work emphasizes its most volatile period, 1875-1925. It aims to recreate the town that assimilated all that its geography, gold, natural disasters, and the extremes of human behaviour could throw in its way.