Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-05-29
assrsAT "DEADwooD DICK" DEAD
Robert hickey, Idol of Dime Novel.
lists, Dies in Denver Jail,

SAYS tne ot. Louis Republic.
His doath put the period on an,
amaaing career. He was such
man Aa the dime novelist loved. His
adventures were the basis Of a thou
| sand fearsome tales Of wild Indians
and frontier adventure. He was the
original of the ficeieious character,
i iDeadwood Dick"
HIS uame was Robert Dickey, but
hewas known all over the West as
"Deadwood Dick" The name struck
the fancy of an author of blood-and-
thnnder Yarns, and he and his ad-
ventures were woven into hundreds
upon hnndreds OF tales that used to
thrill Young Americans.
Dic(1cy died in the Denver Jail
hospital, Nearly a year ago he was
arrested FOR vagrancy and sentenced
10 term of imprisonment. He
grew w2aker and weaker. He was
an old man, and his years of soldier
lug, scouting and Indian fighting had
worn MN down. His last pho o.
graph was made as he lay in hos
pital bed.
WD,c vas when every lad in the
United states knew the adventures
U& lDeadwood Dick" by heart. The
original of the character outliyed
the craze Tor the man-eating tales OF
TIC nId West, where the white scout
ktliod dozen warriors single
handed
rhe anings of the imaginary
Oeadwooi Dick" fourished at the
sine Wien Nick Carter, cold
Sient1' aud dozen other fictitious
daredevil were stirring the hearts
Of American boyhood.
DicEcy was a scout under Gen.
CrooE IN he days when the bad In
dams p' the plains we're making
their last stand against the white
man and lis soldiers. He served un-
der 5oH, Terry during a part Of that
commandcrs campaigns in the foot
hlls Of he Rockies.
Late he became an Indian agent
ARD 3"oaei after the tribes that he
had fought. He issued agency beef
and red .lico to the warriors Of the
prairies ID tried to keep the white
'nnn lrDn taking their lands away
fr"n the Still later he was one
oF the ,"ited States narshals that
helped to keep the laws In the ter
r:torial tines.
n'"''"" served Thou ghout tho
IG.Yil War IN, regiment of p4ln3vl- !
NNhnn carairy, Whom the Federal
lf$ops were mustered out after -.
poH&ttox he went VEST thousands
." otE2r soldiers out of a job did
'iEl#is>, ior there were Indians to
Watch arA fortunes to he made In
The wilu 'ontry.
He took to the frontier life as ma
lnr1iiy as If hs had worn a hunting
sa."t al! his days. If even a man
looked no part of blood-aid- -thhn-
Ger hsro Dickey was that man. He
, &ro0d over six feet in deersl1iN moe
cas- MS and his tawny hair fell ,bont
his shoulders. He wore his hair
| long thrDngh all his career inithe
West IN the Denver jail he ro-
,ested so vigorously against beng
ahorn thNt the jailer yielded and l.
| to- ed bin to wear it as long as b
hsn6,,
, lie fought Indians for good
many years. and his hair-breadth es-
! capes end his well-known courage
! made him dearato the writer's, who
loved to describe the hero dashing
u40ly across the prairie through
! Eight OF arrows and hail OF bullets
and ending his pursuers.
lie vas one of that dying and
! dead galaxy Of heroes Of the old
| West that included Kit Carson, Buff
rdio BiiI, Bat Masterson and others
| OF tho uoCed Indian and gun fighters
rho passed with the Red Man, the
c0w camps and the buffalo. In pic
turahquen ess he was not equalled
| even by tne skin-shirted, wide-hatted
Cody II the dime moved writer
shnutd have created an ideal char
Gu,or hi he flesh "Deadwood Dick"
would have been that character.
Atter he old West had begun to
change hickey started in the fur bus
inrss ana accumulated q fortune.
For years he made living collect
ing The bones Of the great buffalo
herds that he and others like him
had Killed In the halcyon days Of big
game hunting in the West. From
This he went in the fur business,
MADE much money and lost It in the