Richard Bullock
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{{Infobox person
|name = Richard ″Dick″ Bullock
|image =
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| birth_date={{Birth date|df=yes|1847|08|20}}
|birth_place = Ruthvoes, St Columb Major
| death_date={{death date and age|1920|02|07|1847|08|20|df=y}}"'Deadwood Dick' Dies in Los Angeles, Aged 75", Chicago Daily Tribune, February 8, 1920, p1
|death_place = Thorncroft Sanatorium, Glendale, California
|other_names = Dead-eye Dick
Deadwood Dick
|known_for = Guard on the Deadwood stagecoach
|occupation = miner
guard
stockbroker
|nationality = British
}}
Richard Bullock (20 August 1847 –7 February 1920) was a Cornishman who once sang in a Methodist choir and later became a legendary figure of the Wild West Cowboy era. His quick-shooting deeds working on the Deadwood stage gained him the nickname "Deadwood Dick".
Biography
Early in life Bullock's family moved to nearby hamlet of Retew where his father, Captain John Bullock, became the manager of a local clay-works. He and his brother shared many common traits: each very strong, ardent Free Methodists, and great sporting shooters—-a skill that brought him many trophies.
In his mid-twenties, Bullock immigrated to America. He began working in the Black Hills of South Dakota first as a miner, and then as a bullion guard for the Homestake Mine, which at that time was owned by Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst. A bullion guard is somebody who protects gold shipments being transported by stagecoach. Around the age of 35, Bullock began to achieve fame. It is claimed that Bullock had a part in the death of Black Hills outlaw Cornelius Donahue (also known as "Lame Johnny"), although some sources dispute this.{{Cite book|title=Deadwood Dick and Calamity Jane: A Thorough Sifting of Facts from Fiction|last=Senn|first=Edward L.|publisher=Edward L. Senn|year=1939|location=Deadwood, South Dakota}} In later years Bullock was a stockbroker in Lead, South Dakota. He died at Thorncroft Sanatorium, Glendale, California, on February 7, 1920 at the age of 72.{{cite web|last=Bullock|first=Fred|title="Deadwood Dick" A Famous Cornishman|url=http://www.oldcornwall.org/from_the_archives.htm#Deadwood%20Dick|publisher=The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies|access-date=27 May 2013|archive-date=15 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215054637/http://www.oldcornwall.org/from_the_archives.htm#Deadwood%20Dick|url-status=dead}}
References
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{{Reflist}}
- The Western Morning News, February 11, 1997
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051025132244/http://www.kessells.cwc.net/personal/dd.html Roger Kessell's webpage]
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Category:American people of Cornish descent
Category:American stockbrokers
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:Free Methodist Church members
Category:Gunslingers of the American Old West
Category:People from American folklore
Category:People from Lead, South Dakota
Category:People from St Columb Major
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