Bullock also dabbled in mining and politics while continuing to serve as Deputy United States Marshal. In while bringing a horse thief named Crazy Steve into Deadwood for trial, Bullock encountered Theodore Roosevelt for the first time. Roosevelt was then the Deputy Sheriff from Medora, North Dakota , and the two shared coffee and beans over the tailgate of a chuckwagon on the rangelands near Belle Fourche. In the late s, Bullock persuaded the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad to build across the ranch, free of charge.
Located three miles northwest of the town of Minnesela, the railroad arrived in , and Seth founded the town of Belle Fourche.
Bullock and Star offered free lots for any building moved from the town of Minnesela and soon the new settlement soon took over the county seat.
Belle Fourche would later become the largest livestock shipping point in the United States. Completed in , the Bullock Hotel quickly became the most sought after luxury hotel of its time. This historic hotel still stands today, continuing to providing lodging as well as a hour casino.
However, the outfit never saw combat as they sat out the short war in a Louisiana training camp. When Hickok was murdered, Bullock pursued the killer into the Black Hills and captured him, taking him back to Dakota for trial. After his return, he became sheriff of Deadwood. Bullock, one of the few honest men in the camp, was enlisted to look after a gold claim for Alma Garret , an upper class East Coast woman whose husband was killed by Al Swearengen 's men over that claim. Eventually, they became sexually involved despite the fact Bullock is married to his brother 's widow and is the stepfather of their son.
He decides ultimately to end his relationship with Alma when his wife Martha and son William come to Deadwood. Later he learns Alma is pregnant with his child, but the pregnancy ends in miscarriage after she is married to Whitney Ellsworth.
The relationship between Bullock and Martha continues to be rocky in the aftermath of her arrival until they are struck by tragedy, when William is killed by a wild horse.
Though the tragedy is devastating, it brings the two closer together. At the time the series aired, Carradine was 55 years old. Given that Hickok lived such an adventurous life, you may have assumed that he was much older when his life ended on August 2, Seth Bullock, famous Deadwood businessman and sheriff, along with his business partner, Sol Star, arrived in Deadwood just a day before Will Bill was murdered. Contrary to what you may have seen on the HBO series, it was very unlikely that Bullock and Hickok met, let alone became allies.
Although she went down in history as a frontierswoman, daredevil and alcoholic, she was said to have a contrasting characteristic of compassion for others, which proved to be instrumental in the early stages Deadwood, SD. The jury, which was made up of businessmen and miners, found McCall not guilty. Deadwood grew from the promise of wealth. During the summer of , a band of U. George Armstrong Custer discovered traces of gold in the Black Hills.
Custer encouraged exploration there, although the Black Hills belonged to the Sioux Reservation and were off-limits to white civilians. Government officials could do little to stop the rapid influx of fortune seekers, and eventually they stopped trying.
Between and , some 20, prospectors made the trek to Deadwood Gulch. In the fledgling settlement — Deadwood City became the commercial district in the gulch — was given its official name, when a tract of surrounding pine forest was destroyed by fire.
In its earliest days Deadwood was little more than a rough-and-tumble mining camp, where men, livestock and the elements coexisted, in a sprawl of ramshackle buildings and tents, knee-deep in mud, rats and garbage. Because the town was located illegally on Indian land, no government or law existed to keep trouble in check. Violence was common, lending credence to the oft-repeated observation that Deadwood hosted a murder a day.
Nonetheless, over time the town obtained a measure of respectability as merchants and other professional men took up residence, established businesses and hammered out the first vestiges of government. By the end of , Deadwood had more than 3, residents and nearly businesses.
Naturally, they have made appearances in the HBO series. Hickok, true to life, died during the first season; Keith Carradine portrayed him.
Although Calamity Jane was known to dress like a man and swear like a muleskinner in real life, she played by Robin Weigert in Deadwood only sometimes resembled a real man.
Wild Bill Hickock Heritage Auctions. It is said he may have killed as many as 36 men, but more likely his total was less than In any case, he became legendary in his own time, mostly for his deeds as a peace officer, even if he was generally more interested in gambling than enforcing the law. On August 2, , Hickok was immersed in a hand of poker when a lowlife named Jack McCall shot him in the back of the head. Still, like the other communities that survived in the West, Deadwood was eventually tamed.
Many men were responsible for transforming Deadwood from a lawless frontier settlement to a prosperous mining town, but no one was more instrumental in the taming than Seth Bullock. Estelline Bennett, daughter of federal Judge Granville G.
Bennett and author of the memoir Old Deadwood Days, recalled the words of a local railroad official: It was the Bennetts and Bullocks that brought law and order into the Black Hills. Seth Bullock was born in Ontario, Canada, in , the son of a British military officer. At odds with his strict father, Bullock left home at age 18 for Montana Territory, where he was drawn to politics and was elected state senator in In the summer of , Bullock and his longtime friend Sol Star went looking for opportunity.
After a harrowing monthlong wagon trek during which their horses bolted, dumping them and their belongings into a stream , the pair arrived in Deadwood on August 1, where they wasted no time appraising the needs of the sprawling camp. The next morning, an impromptu court of prospectors acquitted McCall, an apparent move to ensure that Deadwood remained lawless. At the same time, Indians were massing in the Black Hills in preparation for an attack on the settlement.
By the end of the month he had become de facto sheriff of the camp. Bullock established a reputation as a tough but fair lawman. In contrast to the trigger-happy outlaws he policed, Bullock rarely used a gun. Tall and charismatic, the sheriff was able to maintain order through quick thinking and the sheer force of his personality.
During his tenure as sheriff, Bullock settled disputes over mining claims; rounded up horse thieves, road agents and stagecoach robbers; investigated murders; presided over trials; oversaw the transport and lodging of prisoners; organized militias to combat Indian attacks; and broke up countless fistfights. Bullock was concerned about the reputation of Deadwood, and thus diligent in his efforts to regulate gambling and prostitution.
He had numerous run-ins with Al Swearengen, proprietor of the notorious Gem Theater, and reportedly drew a line across Main Street, separating the respectable areas of Deadwood from the seedier neighborhoods, or Badlands, controlled by Swearengen.
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