The Black Gold Rush transforms the Old West into the newits the seventies in Wyomings Powder River Basin, and a cheap clean coal strike promises a 500-year supply. Coal-fired power plants are built in record times, railways duel for the rights-of-way in and out of the coal fields, and wide spots in the road burst into towns and cities, demanding housing and schools, recreation and entertainment, hospitals and clinics. Miners and trainmen are hired by the hundredsmoney flows while the good times roll. And true to the nature of the boom-and-bust American West, prosperity is followed by depravitydrugs, prostitution, and gambling, all to be dealt