The Coolidge examiner., 1935-01-25

miner In Montana aud the Pacific Northwest
and for a brief time chief Of scouts for Gen.
George A. Custer during the campaign of 1867
gs agalns, the tribes of the southern Plains lie
also served a scout and guide FOR army officers
To Wyoming and Montana IN the 7Os was a pros
pecior In the Black Hllls gold rush and met the
same fate his friend Hckok. Like wild
BIZ he was shot down from behind by an a.
sassin in 1876 just before setting out from the
old Red Cloud agency In Nebraska to guide the
expedition OF Gen. Ranald 5. Mackenzie against
the Sioux and Cheyennes
"Pawnee Biil" was Mai Gordon Lille. native
of Illinois. who went to oklahoma In the early
days a Boomer" a friend OF the Pawnee
Indians, who adopted him Into their tribe was
associated for "A time with Cody Ia the Wild
West show business and later had a similar
show OF his own. lie Is stlli living In Oklahoma
as the prosperous owner Of a ranch. famous FOR
It's herd OF buffalo
Capt Jack" was John Wallace Crawford.
native OF Ireland. a boy soldier In the Union
army. a prospector and miner in the Black Hills
scout for the army in the Sioux war OF 1876
and until his death In 1917 was widely known as
a chautauqua and lyceum lecturer under the
name OF Capt Jack, the Poet Scout"
Arizona Joe" was Joseph Bruce noted
frontier character, miner. Indian fighter and
close friend OF Texas Jack" Omohundro
Calamity Jane" was the notorious Martha Jane
Canary native OF Missouri, who. dressed In
mems clothes. worked as a teamster with Gen
George Crooks army In the Sioux war OF 1876
was picturesque figure In the Black Hills gold
rush and later drlfted To Montana where she
died In 1908. Fancy Frank" was Dr. Frank
Powell. who started In life as a newspaper re
porter. studied medicine had a varied career on
the frontier. associated with Cody In the
Ehn In NH ha
White Beaver" and the medicine man OF the
winnebagoes' and ended his career in his ma
tive Wisconsin where he mayor OF one town
and practicing physician In another.
Both "Buckskin Sam and Rowing Joe" were
somewhat anomalous characters In that they
were both heroes OF dime novels and writer's OF
such literature. "Buckskin Sam" was Mai Sam
y Hall. born on the frontier where he led an
adventurous life before turning his attention to
producing such thrillers as Double Dan, the
bastard: or, The Pirates OF the Pecos" and "Ker-
whoop. ke-whooi: or. The Tarantula OF Taos"
Later he made his home In the East where he.
"a wIry little man." according to one historian,
occasionally showed his ylrile Western man
hood by going a shooting rampage at his home
in Wilmington Delaware" Joseph Z. Badger
was also Westerner who wrote the story Of
his life on the frontier. calling IL Rowing Joe"
and signing IL "a. H. Post" Later he became
one OF Beadles star writer's under his own name
OF Badger.
As for 'Deadwood Dick" and Diamond Dick, {"
the originals" OF both have been legion But
the best evidence Is that "Deadwood Dick" was
purely fictitious character. created by Edward
l. Wheeler. a writer for Beadle and Adams. and
the first "Deadwood Dick" story appeared In
Beadles Half-Dime Library in 1873 1t was not
Wheeler's first novel," says Edmund Pearson in
his book Dime Novels: or Following an Old
Trail in Popular Literature" (Little, Brown and
Company but never again In all his list Of
alterations did he ever chance upon a name so
ielicltous or character appealing to his read
ers as that OF Deadwood Dick"
AS early as 1906 an original" of "Deadwood