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“DEADWOOD DICK” HAS PASSED AWAY
His Adventures Formed Basis for many Hair-Raising Plots
[People’s Press, 10 February 1920]
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 9-Richard Bullock, said to have been the original “Deadwood Dick,” died Saturday night in a hospital at Glendale, after a year’s illness. He was 75 years old.
It was Mr. Bullock’s genuine adventures in the ‘70s, it is said, that formed the basis for many hair-raising plots for dime novels. He was the driver of the famous Deadwood Coach which bore shipments of gold from the Colt Homestake and other South Dakota mines to Omaha, Nebraska, and achieved such a reputation for bravery and for sureness of aim with six-shooter and rifle that the outlaws permitted the coach to pass when “Deadwood Dick” was driving.
Died: 7 February 1920
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