Deadly Daring Deadwood Dick
more mourning folks in attendance than there had been at Wild Bill Hickok's and Calamity Jane's funerals put together.
By the time of Dick's death, had Ed Wheeler been still alive, which he wasn't, he would have surely "died laughing."
To learn more on the Internet about Deadwood Dick and other characters and events of the west, please see:
Black Hills Gold Discovery http://www.historytelevision.ca/chiefs/h...
Gold Built the Black Hills http://www.deadwood.com/magazine/archive... This site is all about Deadwood, South Dakota, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill, and many others of the era.
The source for this article is:
Huffaker, Clair. Profiles of the American West. Pocket Books, New York, 1976.
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