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Lead Daily Call, Deadwood Pioneer-Times Days of '71 Edition. Friday. July 28. It78 OA Decision on Mine Suit is Still Cited Seth Bullock Answered for Law, Order in Gold Need Camp is I. In the '80 Col.

H. Davey, a picturesque figure, strode into the mountains and acquired the Florence and Sitting Bull silver mines at Galena. He erected a mill, operated at full speed. The Silver Terra and Richmond properties owned by Pat Duggan adjoined his claim at the Sitting Bull end. The two men got into a row over the dip of the ore vein which had its top on Davey's claim and its lowest point underground on Duggan's.

Duggan accused Davey of dipping into the ore vein on his property and declared he had no right to go over the end lines of the claim. Davey's contention was that he was entitled to follow the vein to its end. Davey put his men to work, threw a guard on a bulwark erected at the dividing line and was able to 4 if The name of Cap'n Seth Bullock appears often in early Black Hills history. He hit the gold trail in 1876 via Canada, his birthplace, and Montana. A fearless man, a sure shot, he became the camp's first sheriff when the citizens needed someone to I il 1 Annie Tallent 1st Hills Lady N.D., ranch, the two men became such fast friends, that when the Spanish American' War broke out in 1896, Bullock organized a company of "Rough Riders" which fought brilliantly.

When the Black Hills National Forest Reserve was established in 1905, President Roosevelt appointed him its first superivsor. A rancher, too, he is credited with introducing alfalfa into the Black Hills. He was instrumental in the construction of a tower erected on a high hillside in honor of his friend T.R. It was a project of the Society of Black Hills Pioneers and through Bullock's efforts. Gen.

Leonard Wood, came to the Hills to dedicate Mt. Roosevelt. It is easily reached now by good roads and many persons wind up the mountainside annually to visit it and to gaze upon the widespread panorama of mountains and valleys. Bullock died in 1919 shortly after the dedication and is buried high on White Rocks, above the city, across the gulch from the monument. all or nothing, course the end was very near.

Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down. In 1930 was Poker Alice's loosing year, on February 28, the good Lord called her bluff, she was betting on a pair of kings, but God held a royal flush. On a lonely hill in Sturgis, 6 feet of the Black Hills earth holds the body of Poker Alice, but not the gold she once was worth. So take a trip to the Black Hills, view the South Dakota Territory, watch the scenes unfold on the streets of Deadwood, and that will complete my story.

Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down. Adventurer, educator, and author. Annie D. Tallent attained lasting fame in the West with her complete history of the first quarter century of the Black Hills.

Called "The Black Hills or Last Hunting Ground of the Dakota Indians" had in meticulous detail the Collins Russell expedition to the Black Hills which ended with the party being escorted out by the military for the mountain land was forbidden territory to the whites. She was the only woman in the party and undoubtedly the first white woman in the Hills. She continued her chronicle to include the entire Hills up to Legend of Poker Alice written for Rowena Rachetts, Spearfish, by Golda A. Swain, Kentucky extract most of the ore before Duggan could tunnel into his claim from the top and drift toward the ore vein. One killing resulted.

Davey's son, Frank, and Billy Thatcher, and a fight with a Duggan man, Patrick Corman. who was killed. Thatcher was tried, cleared on self-defense. Duggan closed all the properties by injunction and brought suit against Davey for damages in United States district court. It took 65 days to hear 100 witnesses whose testimony covered 7,000 pages.

The jury found for Duggan, thereby determining that Davey had no right to go over the end line of his claim. Davey's appeal to higher courts resulted in the sustaining of the trial court verdict. The decision has been cited in manv similar cases. aoout the coming of the railroads and her accounts are considered authentic by researchers and students of history. From the Black Hills, she went to Cheyenne, but returned to teach school, be a postmistress, serve as county school superintendent.

Talented, refined, gentle, this woman reared in New York, was greatly different from the gay ladies who came later, and was respected and loved by all who knew her. She died in 1901. but still a mystery were the motives which sent her from her pleasant home, with her husband and voung son. to the wild frontier of Dakota Territory. 'yvjw See 622 Main Deadwood 578-252 the lsiiP Graves at Boot Hill Young Priest Is Hills Historian C0UJE)VS While You're In Town 0 bring law and order into the sprawling town.

He quieted the renegades, convinced they could not steal or shoot or jump another's claim, all without his firing a shot. He operated a hardware store on the side. When Theodore Roosevelt came in from his Medora, brawn, Poker Alice used her brain. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down.

She cut the deck with Deadwood Dick. Wild Bill Hickok to her was no myth. The man she shunned in Deadwood, was Preacher Henry Weston Smith. She drifted on to Sturgis, became a wife and mother, still ran a house of ill repute, no different from the other. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around.

Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down. The Ft. Meade soldiers did partake of Poker Alice's board and bed, then tried to renegade on gambling debts, and those that did are dead. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down.

Poker Alice was tried for murder at Dakota Territory's expense, again she held the winning hand, it was done in self defense. She was caught and tried for bootlegging, stood condemned before Governor Bulow, again lady luck dealt her a pardon, the good governor let her go. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down. Poker Alice's life bet was 1907 For The davu pi? Stop In and Jesuit colleges.

At St. Louis he studied the manuscript letters of Rev. Peter John DeSmet, an earlier missionary and student of Indians. Father Rosen's book, "Pa Ha Sa Pah," published in 1895 was the result of his years of study and research. The first chapters are devoted to the numerous Indian tribes of the Nor thwest, their culture, customs and habits.

He traced the period of discovery, exploration, settlement and social developments of the plains and mountains, pendix contains a thesis on mining The book is valuable reference since it is one of the earliest records of a frontier land. Our Brand New Store! "7 VJq hope you Poker Alice, Cigar Smoking, Whiskey Drinking, Straight Shooting Dame, Poker Alice, Poker Alice, Up in Colorado is where Alice won her fame. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down. She came from mother England to our southern land, she finished school as a lady and married an American man.

Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down. She lost her husband to the hand of fate. To be a lady she knew she'd fail, so she shuffled the deck, lit a cigar and hit the gold rush trail. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around.

Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down. Later she landed in Leadville, gambled with the best of them. She didn't know where she was going, but she sure knew where she'd been. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice, lay those cards around. Shuffle the deck Poker Alice and lay your money down.

When Leadville gold began to fade, this sign she understood. In 1876 she beat the gold rush to Deadwood. There she vied with a tough female known as Calamity Jane. Calamity Jane lived by her (or enjoy the Bays off '76 Some half dozen years after the gold to the Black Hills started, a young Jesuit priest was placed in charge of St. Ambrose Parish in the Black Hills.

He was Rev. Peter Rosen, who became greatly interested in the history of the country. He found information meager and set himself the task of compiling the saga of those years. He collected all the material he could find, searched through the files of the Congressional Library, government reports, newspapers and the records of Georgetown and St. Louis ESTATE Deadwood WELCOME TO DEADWOOD AND THE DAYS OF 76 WELCOME TO Stop in while you're in town DEADWOOD and for that Old Fashioned Home-Baked Flavor Friday, Saturday and Sunday August 4-5-6 RODEO CARNIVAL CONCESSIONS Brt Wish- fur Mwh Fin ami Fntrrtainmrnl to EviTjone from GUY H.

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