They towered over the frontier: men like Hickok, Custer, Cody, and Earp. From Tombstone to Abilene, on a sprawling, rugged frontier, they forged a life by their cunning and courage. And, between these gambling men-some who lost and some who won-was a woman who carved out a legend of her own. A beautiful farm girl from Indiana, Mattie Silks traded innocence for the West's wildest men. But, then her trail of love and money took her to the boomtown of Denver and a man named Cort Thomson, where she could play for the highest stakes of all

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