Illustrations
Reading edition
Along the Needles Highway facing page 34
Harney Peak—older by ages than the Rockies 35
The Four Great Faces: Mount Rushmore Memorial 50
Sylvan Lake mirrors great granite shields at an elevation of 6,250 feet 51
Calamity Jane, during her carnival days 82
Wild Bill Hickok, from an early portrait 82
Cheyenne—Black Hills Stage carrying bullion guarded by shotgun messengers 82
Deadwood Gulch in 1881 83
Modern Deadwood—seventy years later 83
One of the Black Hills’ many streams 98
The Badlands: Desolate, empty, and seared 99
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