Martha Eccles Bullock (1851–1939) was the wife of which Canadian-American Western sheriff, hardware store owner, and U.S. Marshal, and one of the leading citizens in early Deadwood, South Dakota?
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Martha Bullock Martha Eccles Bullock (1851–1939) was the wife of Seth Bullock, one of the leading citizens in early Deadwood, South Dakota. She and Bullock were married in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1874.
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Seth Bullock Seth Bullock (July 23, 1849 – September 23, 1919) was a Canadian-American Western sheriff, hardware store owner, and U.S. Marshal.
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Cuthbert, South Dakota Cuthbert is an unincorporated community in Sanborn County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
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Bartlett Richards Bartlett Richards (January 6, 1862 – September 5, 1911) and his brothers DeForest Richards and Jarvis Richards were cattle barons who owned or fenced in vast acreage in Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado.
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Bar U Ranch The Bar U Ranch National Historic Site, located near Longview, Alberta, is a preserved ranch that for 70 years was one of the leading ranching operations in Canada. At its peak, the ranch extended over 160000 acre with 30,000 cattle and 1000 Percheron horses. Two owners were instrumental in the establishment of the Calgary Stampede, forming part of the Big Four.
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Robert H. Paul Robert "Bob" H. Paul (June 12, 1830 – March 26, 1901) was a law enforcement officer in the American Southwest for more than 30 years. He was sheriff of Pima County, Arizona Territory from April 1881 to 1886 and a friend of Deputy U.S. Marshall Virgil Earp and his brother Wyatt Earp. At 6 ft and 240 lb , he was described as "larger than life". Others described him as "powerful, fearless and very lucky".
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Henry Hooker Henry Clay Hooker (January 10, 1828 - December 5, 1907) was a prominent and wealthy rancher during the American Old West who formed the first and what became the largest American ranch in Arizona Territory. After growing up on the east coast, he married and traveled to California, where he established a hardware store in Hangtown. When it burned, he left for Arizona Territory where he partnered with others to supply cattle to the Army and Indian Agencies. When one of the herds stampeded, he found them in a verdant valley. He established the Sierra Bonita Ranch there. It became one of the largest ranches in the Territory and state of Arizona and was held by family members for several generations. He was a personal friend of Wyatt Earp and aided him after the Earp Vendetta Ride.
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Lincoln County, South Dakota Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 44,828, making it the third-most populated county in the state. Its county seat is Canton. The county was named after Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.
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Battle of Cedar Creek (1876) The Battle of Cedar Creek (also called Big Dry Creek or Big Dry River) occurred on October 21, 1876, in the Montana Territory between the United States Army and a force of Lakota Sioux Native Americans during the Great Sioux War of 1876. The battle broke out after talks between Colonel Nelson A. Miles and Chief Sitting Bull broke down, and ended with surrender of 400 Lakota lodges (with approximately 2,000 men, women, and children) to Miles six days later.
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Etta Place Etta Place (c.1878 – ?) was a companion of the American outlaws Butch Cassidy (real name Robert LeRoy Parker) and the Sundance Kid (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh), both members of the outlaw gang known as the Wild Bunch. Principally the companion of Longabaugh, little is known about her; both her origin and her fate remain shrouded in mystery.
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South Dakota State Penitentiary The South Dakota State Penitentiary is a state prison located in South Dakota's largest city, Sioux Falls, and holds the state's most deadly and dangerous criminals, as well as sex offenders. It was built in 1881. The building's industry shop makes several things for the state, including woodwork and license plates. The State Penitentiary also houses South Dakota's death row for men and the state's only execution chamber.
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Lou Blonger Lou Blonger (May 13, 1849 – April 20, 1924), born Louis Herbert Belonger, was a Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado. His "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" was brought to justice in a famous trial in 1923.
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Thomas C. Marshall Thomas C. Marshall (December 14, 1851 – April 23, 1911) was a pioneer, lawyer, judge, and the 3rd Mayor of Missoula, Montana. He was born in Paducah, Kentucky, and elected county judge of Ballard County, Kentucky, when he was 28. He moved to Missoula in 1883 where he and Frank H. Woody formed the law firm "Woody and Marshall", which dissolved four years later.
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Leola, South Dakota Leola is a small town in, and the county seat of, McPherson County, South Dakota, United States. It was founded on May 1, 1884, and named for Leola Haynes, daughter of one of the town's founders. The population was 457 as of the 2010 census. The town occupies an entirely rural area, and businesses and services include a grocery store a gas station-garage, restaurants and bars, a bank, a post office, a hotel, several small businesses (including farming supplies and equipment) and shops, grain elevators, local police and fire departments, and the county's public schools. The town is administered by a mayor-council form of government.
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Otto Franc Count Otto Franc von Lichtenstein (1846–1903) was a cattle baron, sheriff and judge in the Big Horn Basin region of the U.S. State of Wyoming. Franc was born in Germany as a member of the German nobility. He emigrated to the United States in 1866. After visiting the Big Horn Basin area on a hunting trip in 1877–1878 with Texas Jack Omohundro, he returned the following year and established the Pitchfork Ranch on the upper Greybull River, near the present-day town of Meeteetse. Over the next few decades, he became a powerful cattle baron and political figure in the area.
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Selwyn Egerton Sangster Selwyn Egerton Sangster, known as Canuck, was a Canadian outdoorsman and writer. He lived 1883 to 1966. He was a member of the Canadian North West Mounted Police, and for years attached to the Canadian Indian Service. He founded a hunting and fishing outfitting organisation in the Height of Land region of North Canada.
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Frank Blackhorse Frank Blackhorse is one of several aliases used by a member of the American Indian Movement. He is perhaps best known for his participation in the Wounded Knee incident, particularly his role in the shootout that left two FBI and one American Indian dead and for becoming a fugitive on the run who fled to Canada shortly after.
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William Stephen Bullock William Stephen Bullock (3 August 1865 – 13 November 1936) was a Canadian Baptist minister, businessman, and politician.
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Thomas Rowell Leavitt Thomas Rowell "Tom" Leavitt (June 30, 1834 – May 21, 1891) was an early Mormon settler of Leavitt, Alberta, Canada, which the former Utah sheriff and marshal founded at age 53 after an arduous 800 mi journey in covered wagons, fleeing a crackdown on polygamy that sent fellow Mormons across the border to Mexico and Canada.
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Jack Abernathy John Reeves "Catch-'em-alive Jack" Abernathy (January 28, 1876 – January 11, 1941) was a Texas cowboy and the youngest U.S. Marshal in history. He was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt.
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Ralph Horner Ralph Byron Horner (June 26, 1884 - December 14, 1964) was a Canadian Senator, farmer, businessman and the patriarch of a Western Canadian political family.
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Richard M. Brewer Richard M. "Dick" Brewer (February 19, 1850 – April 4, 1878), was an American cowboy and Lincoln County, New Mexico, lawman. He was the founding leader of the "Regulators", a deputized posse who fought in the Lincoln County War.