Childhood, femininity and blackness: of course, it cannot be said that it is a good hand to be playing in a Deadwood saloon. Anyone would identify Dead Man's Hand, double pair of aces and eights, and leave the chair to Wild Bill Hickock or another of the legendary "white men" who, over time, would come to forge the secularized mythology of the western. But that child, that woman and that black man had no choice but to risk it. And they played it, not once but several times.

The True Story of Billy the Kid. The famous Bandit who Spread Terror in New Mexico, Arizona and Northern Mexico, by Pat Garrett, Sheriff of Lincoln County (New Mexico) who persecuted the Child and killed him. A Faithful and Passionate Story, is the text with which Pat Garrett wanted to prove his existence to himself, not so much that of the Child, understanding that with his death, despite the fame that such fact brought him, his own trail had started to blur.

In 1896 the West is already a thing of museums and circuses. Kohl & Middleton have hired Calamity Jane to feature in their circus of "curiosities" as "The Famous Woman Scout of the Wild West", "Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill's Comrade" or "The Terror of the Black Hills Rogues" . During the tour, as a souvenir, a seven-page booklet with this text, Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by herself, is offered for sale.

In The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as "Deadwood Dick", by himself, what begins as a typical "slave narrative" suddenly transforms into a true western. An emancipated slave who participated in the Lincoln County cattle war, he met in Deadwood with Wild Bill and Calamity Jane, rode alongside Billy the Kid and the James brothers, and dealt personally with Buffalo Bill, Kiowa Bill, Kit Carson, and Yellowstone Kelley.