The Black Hills have been famous ever since the gold rush days of the 1870s. This book takes a look at the remains of those ghosts: the camps, the stage stops, the communities, the people who made the Black Hills famous. The book details 600 towns and includes many historical and contemporary photos. Also included are maps and tips on how to locate the ruins of those ghost towns.

General geology of a deformed area that is underlain by Precambrian phyllites and schists and is intruded by granite and pegmatites in the central Black Hills of South Dakota.