Deadwood Dick

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Deadwood Dick was a fictional character from the pages of an 1800s dime novel by Edward L. Wheeler. 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.

Others 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;
Richard Clarke, also an actor, who died on May 5, 1930, Took the role after The Deadwood Chamber of Commerce asked him, in the 1920s, to portray the role of Deadwood Dick in the city's annual Days of '76 Parade. [1]
Cornishman, Richard Bullock, also a coach driver (1847 - 1921);

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.