Deadwood Dick

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Deadwood Dick was a character from the pages of an 1800s dime novel. The character appeared in more than a hundred stories and became so famous the name was claimed by several men who actually lived in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Among those who took the nickname at various times were:

Nat Love (1854 – 1921) a black cowboy;
Dick Brown, an actor;
Richard Cole, a stage coach driver;
Cornishman, Richard Bullock, also a coach driver (1847 - 1921);
Richard Clark, also an actor, who died on May 5, 1930

Others briefly associated with the Deadwood Dick name included Richard Palmer who died in Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1906, and Robert Dickey, who died in a Denver hospital jail in 1912

External link

[Deadwooddicks.com]

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