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  • The third coach, with its savanero performing like Deadwood Dick, came to rest beside the first one, and a tremendous cheer broke from our bastion.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • He proved to be as good a storyteller as Edward L. Wheeler, creater of the Deadwood Dick novels.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • There was a guy -- there was a black cowboy named Nat Love, who called himself Deadwood Dick, who claimed to have been there.

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2004 2004

  • But no sign of armed opposition, and when our local guides and drivers decamped one night, spirits were so high that no one minded, and Admiral Hope and Bowlby, the Times correspondent, took over as mule-skinners, whooping and hawing like Deadwood Dick.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • But no sign of armed opposition, and when our local guides and drivers decamped one night, spirits were so high that no one minded, and Admiral Hope and Bowlby, the Times correspondent, took over as mule-skinners, whooping and hawing like Deadwood Dick.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • But no sign of armed opposition, and when our local guides and drivers decamped one night, spirits were so high that no one minded, and Admiral Hope and Bowlby, the Times correspondent, took over as mule-skinners, whooping and hawing like Deadwood Dick.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • The third coach, with its savanero performing like Deadwood Dick, came to rest beside the first one, and a tremendous cheer broke from our bastion.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • The third coach, with its savanero performing like Deadwood Dick, came to rest beside the first one, and a tremendous cheer broke from our bastion.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • This done, Deadwood Dick turned to Bill McGucken, who had ventured to clamber to the seat of the coach.

    Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

  • But of the lot, Deadwood Dick was the only one bold enough to approach the cabin, he came sauntering along and halted on the threshold, nodding to the occupants of the little apartment with a nonchalance which was not assumed.

    Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

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