I'm not sure in 1847. I've done a little reading about the South Dakota area and I know Deadwood will be about 200 miles, just north of west of Fort P...erre and it's about fifty miles north of Mount Rushmore. It's all rugged country and I have no idea just where gold was found, even if I knew exactly where Deadwood was going to be." What other alternatives do we have?" Cassie asked. "I guess we could think about fur trapping." Actually trapping was one of the first things that brought people to. We just danced in a National Competition together.“CHARLES NEWMAN and CLAIRE MCARTHUR!”What was that? Did they say we had moved on, or were they telling us to leave the floor? The crowd was stunned and started to applaud very loudly. I guess that meant ... We made the cut!We waved back to the crowd, and Claire took me by my collar and kissed me in front of everybody there.I knew this was likely to come back on me, but I responded and kissed her back causing the other dancers around us to start. ”“But all they do is lie, “ she protested. “You’ve heard the old joke about politicians, you know they’re lying when you see their lips moving. They just say what they think people want to hear.”“Whereas when you interviewed for Flagler, for example, you made sure to say everything you could to alienate them, right?”“Uh,” she grunted. “OK, point taken.”“Honey, if they’d caught you out in a bunch of lies they’d have shitcanned you, right? Well, politics is pretty much the same. If they do too. The word was out that Dan Blueburg was history, seems a lot of girls had a very low opinion of old roving hands Dan as they called him.Jen was ecstatic that she was temporally assigned to the C-town barracks as a liaison for the task force. It was a reprieve from the bridge traffic and close to everything that was going on.The group was involved in getting supper ready. I was told we were having salad, baked potato with crab cakes from the Inn, along with ice cold beer. It all sounded good to.