A Log of Deadwood: A Postmodern Epic of the South Dakota Gold Rush

As Walt Whitmans was writing about Manifest Destiny, and Arthur Rimbaud in France was describing his deliriums, the gold rush on Deadwood Creek in the Black Hills of South Dakota was exploding into an instant city of 10,000. But these hardy gold-seekers refused to acknowledege that they were invading the sacred heart of the Sioux reservation.