Deadwood Dick, or a Game of Gold
by Tom Taggart

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Highlights

Wild West Room for Extras Bare Stage/Simple Set

Synopsis

Here's the dramatization of a bloodthirsty dime novel just like those Grandfather used to read in secret.

The lure of the Old West of heroes, of redskins biting the dust, of lily pure maidens and black hearted gamblers, of the never ending "Game of Gold" is still with us.

In 1876 Edward L. Wheeler started turning out novels about a Robin Hood of the Black Hills whom he named Deadwood Dick.

Overnight Dick became so popular that the series continued for fifteen years.

Taking the most exciting situations, the more colorful characters and the most amusing dialogue from these novels, Taggart has fashioned a blood and thunder melodrama.

Long lost daughters, stolen gold mines, kidnapped heroines and hairbreadth escapes abound!

Characters

Character
NED HARRIS

alias Deadwood Dick.

WILD BILL HICKOCK

his "heck-fur-leather" pard

LILY BLOSSOM

a tender prairie flower

ROSE

her resplendent sister

BLACKMAN REDBURN

a true villain

JUDGE NIX

all the law there is in Deadwood

CALAMITY JANE

owner of the "Man-Trap Saloon"

LA PALOMA

an exotic adventuress

PONG PING

a Chinese cook

CHET PUSSY

a bartender

SHERIFF LOVELESS

who gets his man

MOLLY

his wife, more sinned against than sinning

TEETOTAL TESSIE

a Temperance Crusader

PIANO ANNIE

who tickles everyone at the Man-Trap

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573607813
ISBN-10 0573607818

Deadwood Dick, or a Game of Gold is a play written by Tom Taggart and published by Samuel French .

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