The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-21
SETH BULLOCK.
The Man Who Succeeded Sitting Bull
in Deadwood.

The Man Who Succeeded Sitting Bull
in Deadwood.
panying Governor Roosevelt on his
western trip, accidentally heard men,
| ton one day the name of Seth Bullock.
Mr. Guild asked afterward:
"Who is Seth Bullock?"
Mr.. Bullock's own answer to the ques-
| ton is most fitting:
Il am the man who succeeded Sitting
Bull in the Deadwood country"
If you can imagine a sparse, lean
man, with the nose of an eagle, the eye
of hawk, the parchment skin of one
who knows more of the plains than the
pavement, an unwilling tongue and an
indomitable scorn Of fear or death, you
will have in your minds eye the por-
trait of one of the few survivors of the
Original western pioneers" Mr.. Bull
lock is unique not along for what he
has been or is, but because in his class
he is almost alone in the country which
stretches from the Missouri to the ba-
W
standing and property owner of Dead
wood, but civilization has taken from
him his real occupation, and the days
of knight errantry are ended under the
skies which arch above the grave Of
Custer and the Clipped monument of
"Wild Bill"
He is the man who was the first sher-
if OF Lewis and Clark county, Monta-
ma, man that every desperate in the
territory laughed at one morning and
the next was fleeing before Not a
laxative man, not man inclined to
boast, sure on the trigger, enduring all
things in heat and cold, tireless, relent-
less friend to all in nature, but friend
to few men.
They quote Seth Bullock of having
said once upon a time:
1.-THE only men / like is those that
does things"
And in his vocabulary doing things"
does not consist in following CONNER
cial pursuits, In trading and bartering,
in captalizing great corporations or
mastering the secrets of pitching"
dollar His kind of action was trailing
big game, rounding up cattle, mastering
wild horses, defying lawbreakers, rid
ing with the mountain wind and defeat
ing the mountain storm. This is the
action that calls for not only physical
strength and courage, but a moral
quality suspected by few novelists
analyzed by still less.
Riding down into Deadwood Gulch,
your guide points to a clump of trees.
II 1, N
ser, who glibIy introduces himself as:
1.-THE original axle grease which greas-
ed the way for Seth Bullock to get into
this ERE town"
Mr. Fraser waves his hand mildly to-
ward this clump Of trees and says:
That's where he did it, and over
there" pointing in another direction,
as where he did it again
BY allowing Mr.. Fraser all the time
he desires you finally ascertain that the
spots are where Mr.. Bullock faced the
famous road agents, shot them down in
their tracks, captured them and sent
some to their Just deserts.
But" says Mr.. Fraser, reassuringly,
"Seth wouldn't hurt anybody that was
right. He was Just doing his duty"
I'Oiiie JIG . butN III ptilICNeii way dp-
pears to be the keynote to the character
of this silent man, who twenty-five |
years ago made it possible for a law
abiding man to live in Deadwood with |
out having to fight for his life. What |
he accomplished was in a quiet way.
HE was the most persuasive man !
ever in these parts" says "Bill' Fraser. |
You can readily believe that when from !
well authenticated sources you learn |
how he gave the lawless element every |
opportunity to get away from him, |
kindly warned them of their danger, !
left loopholes for them to escape
through, but when all these chances
were despised and tossed aside, shot /
down the ringleaders with as little
as one would dispose of
worm.
He would wait until the last min
ate" says the irrepressible bill" and |
hen he'd sort of shift his hand around
rs though it were jerked lightnin', and
The next thing you knew he was shoot