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a pathless wilderness wild rugged that was the Black Hills of South Dakota in the early 1870s a hardy frontier far from the PALS of civilization where fortune beckoned with a glittering smile and life hung on the quickness of a trigger finger there was gold in them thar hills gold at Spring Creek gold at crook City gold at Central City gold on the mountains in the rivers and in the dark depths far below the surface of the earth for centuries uncounted men have sought fought and died for gold as they did in the Black Hills when the West was young brave men came from the north the east the south the West by the tens the hundreds the thousands they tunneled the mountainside they calmed the gulches they strained the rivers creeks and streams in their wild quest for gold but the romantic day of the placer miner was short live no more could gold be washed from the coarse gravel of a creek beds the plasters were worked out the bewhiskered pioneer with pick shovel in gold pan had served his da