JAMES A. JANKE. Hotel Deadwood. e-book, $2.99. www.booklocker.com
In 1876 Owen Buchanan, his brother, and two other young men head for the gold rush in Deadwood, an illegal and lawless town. They start out placer mining, but Owen soon realizes that mining the miners is the fastest path to wealth. The Buchanans start the Hotel Deadwood – and both pursue beautiful Josephine Gruenhagen. But they clash with the notorious Stark brothers, and this leads to deadly violence. And maybe this story tells the real reason Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok.