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	Nat Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He claimed to be "Deadwood Dick", a character made infamous by dime novels and may have the strongest historical claim to that moniker.
		He claimed to be the real Deadwood Dick, and said that he had earned this name in a roping contest in Deadwood, South Dakota.
		The town of Deadwood decided that its “Days of ‘76” celebration would be more colorful if a real Deadwood Dick were on hand to greet tourists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nat_Love (813 words)

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		The most important traits of Deadwood Dick are that he too is without the upper-class rank which belongs exclusively to Easterners or Englishmen; that he possesses to a high degree such characteristic skills as riding and shooting; and that at the same time he is eligible for romantic attachments.
		Deadwood Dick fully illustrates the principle that Merle Curti found to be central in the dime novel.
		Deadwood Dick is certainly not an integrated construction of the imagination, and his fame reflects the kind of sensationalism that increased so markedly in the later 1870's.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~PUBLIC/temp1/temp1/hns/chapter9.htm (6887 words)

	NORTH PINELLAS: Dead ringer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In a salute to the early 20th century, Deadwood Dick features a trial, lots of shooting and invitations to the audience to boo and cat-call at will.
		The real Deadwood Dick was a former fl slave-turned-cowboy and rodeo rider named Nat Love (who died in 1921), but the Deadwood Dick of lore is either a brave hero in a Saturday matinee serial or a Robin Hood of the Black Hills in Edward L. Wheeler's dime novels.
		In the melodrama Deadwood Dick, opening Thursday at the Leepa Rattner Museum, there is no Deadwood Dick, but the fair-haired hero, Ned Harris (Ian MacCallum, Verges in The Tempest) is accused of being a dastardly Deadwood Dick.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/04/25/news_pf/NorthPinellas/Dead_ringer.shtml (558 words)

	Deadwood Discovered your guide to Deadwood and the surrounding Black Hills area -
		DEADWOOD -- With memories of our factual Deadwood Dicks growing dimmer and the glamour of Buntline's fictitious hero by the same name tarnishing with age, this old gold camp's most famous title waits its next claimant.
		DEADWOOD -- Many towns boast of at least one horse and buggy doctor, but Deadwood has one doctor who took care of some of his earlier practice on horseback over roads that were little better than trails.
		DEADWOOD -- The faro queen of early day Deadwood was as pretty a girl as ever dealt cards across a gambling layout and as high born a lady as ever sacrificed her all for the cause of the Old South.
	www.deadwooddiscovered.com /history (833 words)

	The Collector's Miscellany New Series No 1 Nov-Dec 1932
		Deadwood Dick’s real name was Richard Clarke, and he died in the city which had given him his nickname, and which lies in a narrow canon, 4,500 feet above sea level, in
		Deadwood Dick and his comrades cleared the way and blazed the trail for Babbitt and his friends.
		Deadwood Dick is not the first real man to die, but whose memory is destined to live in the fictitious creation of an author’s imagination.
	www.geocities.com /justingilb/texts/CollMiscNov1932.htm (1721 words)

	House of Beadle & Adams Online / Beadle's Half-Dime Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Deadwood Dick, Jr., in Texas; or, The Ghouls of Galveston.
		Deadwood Dick, Jr., in Gotham; or, Unraveling a Twisted Skein.
		Deadwood Dick, Jr., in Philadelphia; or, The Wild West Detective among the Crooks.
	www.niulib.niu.edu /badndp/hdl-g.html (1641 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1876, after a cattle drive to Deadwood City in the Dakota Territory, he entered a rodeo and won, won several roping and shooting contests, earning him the name "Deadwood Dick." He claimed to have taken only a record 9 minutes to rope, throw, tie, bridle, saddle, and mount an untamed bronco.
		When the Old West gave way to progress and technology and Deadwood Dick's days as a cowboy were over, he swapped his mount for the iron horse and took a job on the railroad as a Pullman porter.
		It was called "The Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the Cattle Country as Deadwood Dick" and it became the primary source of the events in his life -- both real and, it must be admitted, fanciful.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=614 (401 words)

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		Moby Dick or The whale Dick or The whale B00005WGV4
		Symbolism in Herman Melvilles Moby Dick From the Satanic to the Devine Dick: From the Satanic to the Devine 0773482938
		Moby Dick Or the Whale Dick: Or the Whale 0520045491
	www.hotlag.de /dick.htm (3848 words)

	Deadly Daring Deadwood Dick
		Ole Deadwood Dick became the man’s man of the west as he chased outlaws, was an outlaw, a hunter, Indian fighter, cowboy and gambler, just to name a few of Dick’s in-print occupations.
		The damsel in distress could always count on Deadwood Dick coming to her rescue, just in the nick of time.
		Why, I bet if Dick had hung around just a bit longer he could have out-sung Gene Autry and tuned his get-fiddle, saddled his horse, and fought off a whole band of Sioux all at the same time while riding off into the sunset--where, of course, he would then kiss his horse.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/great_american_plains/109184 (511 words)

	Dime Novels -- Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure
		She soon by inquiry learned the location of the fatal quicksand, and the incidents of the strange struggle between Piute Dave and Deadwood Dick; then, leaving her horse to graze, she walked out to the place where the pool of stagnant water covered the treacherous bogmire of death.
		Dick!" she moaned, kneeling upon the ground, and peering into the pool, as if to penetrate into the untold depths; " I cannot -- will not believe that you have met your death in this awful place.
		Dick had described him to her, and therefore she had no difficulty in recognizing him -- for surely there were no two persons in the West whom nature had made so hideous.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/dp/pennies/texts/185.html (2137 words)

	Deadwood Dick's
		Deadwood Dicks, located in the heart of Deadwood, South Dakota, is a place where the wild west is still alive and kicking.
		That is, if you have any energy left to wander after seeing and doing all there is to do in Deadwood Dicks.
		There is lots to do in Deadwood and Deadwood Dick's is located in the heart of the Historic District.
	www.deadwooddicks.com (341 words)

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		Vertical file with biographical article and photographic portrait of Deadwood Dick, or Nat Love (1854-1921), an African American cowboy of the Old West.
		He was born in a slave cabin in Tennessee and moved to Kansas in 1869, becoming a cowpuncher on the Chisholm Trail in Dodge City.
		He won his famous nickname in a cattle roping contest in Deadwood, Dakota Territory in 1876, was "one of the best Indian fighters in the Dakota plains territory," and was friend to both lawman Bat Masterson and outlaws Frank and Jesse James and Billy the Kid.
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=212217 (154 words)

	Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage Wyoming Tales and Trails
		The fame of the line and of Deadwood itself, was assured by being early featured in Edward L. Wheeler's Deadwood Dick series of half-dime novels and Col. Cody's Wild West show.
		Rumbling noisily through the fl canyon road to Deadwood, at an hour long past midnight, came the stage from Cheyenne, loaded down with passengers, and full five hours late, on account of a broken shaft, which had to be replaced on the road.
		Deadwood is just as lively and hilarious a place during the interval between sunset and sunrise as during the day.
	www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /deadwood.html (1362 words)

	AllRefer.com - dime novels (American Literature) - Encyclopedia
		Such men as Bruin Adams, Col. Mayne Reid, Col. Prentiss Ingraham, W. Cody, and Ned Buntline wrote of their own adventures.
		Among the most famous series were those about Deadwood Dick, by Edward L. Wheeler, and those about Nick Carter.
		After 1880, imitators entered the field with lurid stories that dealt in blood and thunder.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/dimenove.html (305 words)

	Historic Deadwood in the Black Hills of South Dakota
		But when the fickle Fates tried to stack the deck against Deadwood, the plucky South Dakota gold camp called their bluff.
		Once and always a rollicking frontier town, Deadwood is now the site of the nation's largest historical preservation project.
		Whether the exciting stories of Deadwood's heroes and villains are true or false, fiction or fact, you can bet on this...
	www.historicdeadwood.com (259 words)

	Deadwood Discovered your guide to Deadwood Gulch and the surrounding Black Hills area
		The Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission Wednesday approved a three-story addition project proposed for the rear of the Franklin Hotel.
		DEADWOOD, SD n The Adams Museum and the Historic Adams House will observe new winter hours beginning October 1, 2005 and continue through April 30, 2006.
		DEADWOOD, SD nThe American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), based in Nashville, TN, recently announced the Adams Museum & House, Inc. is the recipient of the AASLH Certificate of Commendation for General Excellence.
	www.deadwooddiscovered.com (623 words)

	Deadwood: Deadwood Dick's - Traveler Reviews - Old and Run-Down Dive - STAY AWAY - TripAdvisor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If you stretch your imagination very far, you could call Deadwood Dick's "rustic" or "antique" -- but in fact it is just an old and run down dive.
		It is a 4-story, brick grocery warehouse that has been converted to an antique store and bar on the main floor and hotel rooms/suites on the 3rd and 4th floors.
		Then walk about a block and half down the street to the Deadwood Thymes Cafe Bistro which had excellent food, in contrast to most other places in the Black Hills.
	tripadvisor.com /ShowUserReviews-g54578-d492881-r3104681-Deadwood_Dick_s-Deadwood... (631 words)

	EDWARD L. WHEELER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Edward Lytton Wheeler, self-styled "Sensational Novelist," whose heroic "Deadwood Dick" is better known to fame than his creator, is another author about whom even the newspapers, which so often refer to this character, seem to know very little.
		Since the Deadwood Dick stories were extremely popular, Beadle and Adams naturally wished to continue them, and it is certain that they employed †one or more ghost-writers †.
		In spite of the fact that Wheeler mentions on it that he has written 122 numbers of the Deadwood Dick novels, only 28 had actually been published when the letter was written and only 33 at the time of his death.
	www.niulib.niu.edu /badndp/wheeler_edward.html (3643 words)

	Deadwood Dick (1940) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Trivia: The actor who played Deadwood Dick was white, but the real Deadwood Dick was fl.
		Inventive and genuinely entertaining, DD has some great set pieces, one especially is that The Mask or whoever bad-dude has a hideout behind a waterfall and the henchmen have to get off their horses, turn off the waterfall and reveal the cave behind....all very clever and silly.
		Dick would gallop about on his trusty horse and the usual chasings and fights would go on for weeks...actually months, because this thing ran 15 episodes, one a week!!
	www.imdb.com /Title?Deadwood+Dick (413 words)

	Deadwood Dick's lodging
		FOR LODGING INFORMATION AND RATES TO STAY AT DEADWOOD DICK'S ACCOMODATIONS, PLEASE EMAIL dwddicks@deadwood.net OR CALL US Here is a view of the living room of one of our fine suites.
		Now consider that this is just one room in your large Deadwood Dicks suite.
		But in Deadwood, nothing is done on a small scale.
	www.deadwooddicks.com /lodging.html (790 words)

	BlackCowboys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nate Love, also know as Deadwood Dick, was born a slave in Tennessee.
		In the rifle and Colt events, shooting at 100 and 250 yards with 14 shots, Nate placed all of his shots in the bulls eye and 10 of the 12 pistol shots in the bulls eye.
		Nate Love was the obvious winner and along with the prize money, the town gave Nate the title of "Deadwood Dick".
	www.blackcowboys.com /natlove.htm (450 words)

	Nat Love, 1854-1921. Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by ...
		Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself; a True History of Slavery Days, Life on the Great Cattle Ranges and on the Plains of the "Wild and Woolly" West, Based on Facts, and Personal Experiences of the Author.
		At this time I was known all over the cattle country as "Red River Dick," the name given to me by the boss of the Duval outfit, when I first joined the cow boys at Dodge City, Kansas.
		It was not till the next year that I won the name of "Deadwood Dick," a name I made even better known than "Red River Dick." And a name I was proud to carry and defend, if necessary, with my life.
	docsouth.unc.edu /neh/natlove/natlove.html (19369 words)

	Nat Love
		"Deadwood Dick", and "Red River Dick" went from being "Champion Roper of the Western Cattle Country." to being a Pullman porter for a Colorado railroad company.
		This site was built to help you understand the essence of a man, who in his own words has told us better than any historian could, what it was like to be a fl cowboy.
		In order to give you a better feel for Nat Love's special brand of storytelling, we have included three key chapters from The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick".
	www.natlove.com (290 words)

	Deadwood Dick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1876 Edward L. Wheeler started turning out novels about a Robin Hood of the Black Hills whom he named Deadwood Dick.
		Overnight Dick became so popular that the series continued for fifteen years.
		Taking the most exciting situations, the more colorful characters and the most amusing dialogue from these novels, Taggart has fashioned a blood and thunder melodrama.
	www.eou.edu /csa/DeadwoodDick.html (173 words)

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		Deadwood Dick and the Code of the West by...
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	Deadwood Dick's Hotel - Deadwood - Deadwood Dick's Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor
		I reserve a room each year for the Black Hills rally at Deadwood Dicks.
		If you stretch your imagination very far, you could call Deadwood Dick's "rustic" or "antique" -- but...
		Explore our site to find travel information and unbiased reviews on Deadwood tourism, restaurants, attractions, maps and much more.
	tripadvisor.com /Hotel_Review-g54578-d492881-Reviews-Deadwood_Dick_s-Deadwood... (320 words)

	One Sixth Warrior Forum - Deadwood Dick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He out roped and out shot other cowboys to become the "hero of Deadwood." The assembled crowd, Love wrote, "named me 'Deadwood Dick’ and proclaimed me champion roper of the Western cattle country." Love was proud of the nickname, and used it till the end of his life.
		Love later wrote a book called "The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as Deadwood Dick." The book is full of both tall tales and true adventures; sometimes, it is hard to tell fact from fiction.
		He claimed he was adopted by an Indian tribe, rode 100 miles in twelve hours on an unsaddled horse, and tried to rope and steal army cannon.
	www.onesixthwarriors.com /forum/showthread.php?postid=214706 (755 words)

	American Passages - Unit 5. Masculine Heroes: Author Activities
		Saloons and gambling halls added to the largely lawless conditions found in boomtowns such as Deadwood, South Dakota.
		Nat Love, who was also known as Deadwood Dick, wrote a 1907 autobiography that recounted his post-slavery experiences as both a cowboy and a railroad worker in the Old West.
		This photo of Nat Love is from The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as Deadwood Dick by Himself.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit05/author_activ-7c.html (309 words)

	Black Cowboys
		Take a look at the pictures on the right sidebar (and below) to learn a little more about the fl cowboys who are honored in the song "Tell the Truth"
		Nat Love claimed to have won the title of "Deadwood Dick" in a roping contest in Deadwood, South Dakota in 1876.
		This photograph is from his autobiography which was privately printed in 1907.
	www.reggaecowboys.com /reggaecountry.html (247 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Deadwood Dick, Episcopalian -- Jun. 16, 1930
		TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Deadwood Dick, Episcopalian -- Jun. 16, 1930
		To the Churchman, liberal Episcopalian weekly, wrote its Yankton, S. Dak., correspondent last week to eulogize the late, romanticized Deadwood Dick, currently revived for the U. masses by William Randolph Hearst's New York American (TIME, May 19, June 9).
		Excerpt: "Around Deadwood Dick, whose real name was Richard Clarke, were woven romance and daring.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,739574,00.html (327 words)

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