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!