I remember talk from my childhood claiming that he came from a village called Treviscoe, (renowned in those days for its Male Voice choir - don't know if it is still going on). Gail -----Original Message----- From: Julia Mosman Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 12:38 AM To: cornish-gen@rootsweb.com ; cornish@rootsweb.com Subject: [CORNISH] FW: Deadwood Dick, aka Richd. Bullock Hi all - I found this on a website for old U.S. newspapers (which charges). It was written to encourage people to sign up, but has a subject of interest for us. The genealogist was Scott Phillips, who said he runs a forpay website called Onward To Our Past, and specializes in Cornwall, amongst other places. Kansas City Star, 16 February 1920, pg 20 "Deadwood Dick Cashes In His Chips In Life's Game", detailing how the hero of numerous "yellow" books and dime novels had died. "This account confirmed that a man named Richard Bullock was the original and very real Deadwood Dick. He spent time as a guard on the gold bullion stagecoaches that carried gold ore from the mines of South Dakota to Omaha, Nebraska. The article said that Richard emigrated from “England,” the common misnomer in those times for any portion of the United Kingdom. . My additional research has confirmed that Richard Bullock, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick, was born about 20 August 1847 near Saint Columb Major in Cornwall. He was a member of the Methodist Choir before he emigrated from Cornwall in his early 20s to find his future in America. . >From choirboy to a man of mythological proportions and the stuff of early >action novels." The entire piece (for free viewing) is at http://blog.genealogybank.com/deadwood-dick-chasing-a-cornish-american-legend.html! ------------------------------- Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message