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SETH BULLOCK

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SETH BULLOCK

<b>62. SETH BULLOCK</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1847-1919). American frontier lawman, the first sheriff of Deadwood, Dakota Territory (1877-?), arriving there on Aug 1, 1876, just a few days before the murder of Wild Bill Hickock. Meeting Theodore Roosevelt in 1894, he was thereafter a lifelong friend. He was a member of Roosevelt’s Roughriders and was appointed marshal of Dakota Territory by the President in 1905. TLS as US Marshal, 1p, 4to, Sioux Falls, Dec 5, 1910. On his official letterhead to W. E. Meagley, US Commissioner in McLaughlin, SD. Bullock directs the apparently new commissioner regarding how to obtain blank stationery for the various forms he will be required to use. In part, “...<i>Probably a seal (if you do to have one already) docket, warrants, complaints, commitment, subpoena, pay-rolls, and blanks on which to submit your quarterly account will be all that you will require...I will send you a book of instructions as soon as I get some in, as we are out just at present.</i>..” Boldly signed, adding “<i>U.S. Marshal.</i>” Normal folds; lightly soiled on verso; else Fine example.

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