40 Years Prospecting and Mining in the Black Hills of South Dakota (1921)

In this true first-hand account, long out of print and circulation, prospector Frank Hebert recounts his 40 years prospecting and mining the Black Hills of South Dakota, beginning in 1877. He also relates personal memories of mountain lion attacks, Indian raids, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Ogalala Sioux, a Wounded Knee survivor, Red Cloud's band, outlaw Road Agents. Many of the scenes retold in this book occur in the Wild West mining camps such as Deadman's Gulch, Deadwood, Custer, and Lead. The author successfully located and mined gold and tin as well as other minerals in the Black Hills and provides great insight into the methods used by these early miners and their successes and failures along the way.

Contents:
CHAPTER I.
Young Fortune Hunter Meets First Adventure
CHAPTER II.
Boys Kick for Better Food and Get it
CHAPTER III.
Outfit Begin the Education of an Easterner
CHAPTER IV.
Engineering Party Made Acquaintance with Band of Indians
CHAPTER V.
Education of Easterner Continued -with Zeal
CHAPTER VI.
Young Seeker After Fortune Makes Start for New Eldorado — Arrives in Black Hills
CHAPTIEIR VII
Becomes Prospector —Visits Rapid City at Time of Hanging Three Horse Thieves
CHAPTER VIII.
Road Agents Enter Into Prospector's Story
CHAPTER IX
Captain Jack and the Sage Hen Enter the Scene with Gun Play
CHAPTER, X.
Prospector Catches Coyote at Great risk — Kasinger Comes Into the Story
CHAPTER XI.
Hebert Meets up With Road Agents but Didn't ask for Reward
CHAPTEIR XII
Mountain Lions and Kasinger's Stories Make Life Interesting
CHAPTER XIII
Mountain Rats Nearly Cause Trouble Between Brothers
CHAPTER XIV.
Tobey "Wants a Bear, and Kasinger "Wants Barton's Wife
CHAPTER XV.
Celebrated Wind Cave Discovered and Attempt made To Explore
CHAPTER XVI.
Lame Johnny and Fly Speck Billy Die With Their Boots on
CHAPTER XVIII.
Hebert Makes a Water Wheel and is Called Benjamin Franklin
CHAPTER XVIII
Etta Tin Mine Starts Business for Harney Peak Mining Company
CHAPTER XIX.
Judge Roman Fails to Report but Gets Sixty Thousand Dollars
CHAPTER XX.
Tenderfoot Lady Learns How to Wash Dishes
CHAPTER XXI
Susan B. Anthony and Dr. Anna Shaw Convert Hebert to Equal Suffrage
CHAPTER XXII.
Harney Peak Company Spent Millions and Produced — Suckers
CHAPTEIR XXIII.
Mr Wilson Went to England and Met Authorities and Death
CHAPTER XXIV
Lithia Production Starts in Black Hills and Things Look Good
CHAPTER XXV.
Man in 'Charge of Clara Belle Receives Batch of Wood Three Different Times
CHAPTER XXVI.
E. C. Johnson Obtains Court Decree Title to Many Harney Peak Company's Mines
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Bureau lot Mines Sends Out Tin Experts But Accomplish Nothing
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Summing up of Mining Possibilities in Richest 100 Square Miles on Earth


This book published in 1921 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.