Word: deadwood
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...element of the town looked to the Johnson gang to keep order. Wayt Johnson, head of the clan, had a reputation for action, but he was trying hard to be law-abiding, he wanted to be elected sheriff. With his brothers Luther and Jim, his henchmen Brant White and Deadwood, he overawed many a would-be bad man, kept the peace in spite of tantalizing taunts. Even when they called him "Saint John- son," Wayt kept his temper. But when he got a city ordinance passed forbidding firearms to be carried in Alkali, trouble gath- ered like thunderheads in summer...
...Churchman, liberal Episcopalian weekly, wrote its Yankton, S. Dak., correspondent last week to eulogize the late, romanticized Deadwood Dick, currently revived for the U. S. masses by William Randolph Hearst's New York American (TIME, May 19, June...
Excerpt: "Around Deadwood Dick, whose real name was Richard Clarke, were woven romance and daring. But much written about him was fiction. He was not a desperado, not a bandit, stage-coach robber, or brigand. ... He was a good citizen, a necessarily rough character in the days when it was part of the life of the west, but withal not a bad man. . . . He was born in England, baptized and confirmed in the Church of England...
...always sell, but detective stories, War stories, even gangster stories are becoming "old stuff." Last week, William Randolph Hearst's New York American, ever mindful of the classics, solved its feature problem by simply beginning to reprint that 50-year-old saga, originally printed in 64 nickel novels, Deadwood Dick, Prince of the Road by Edward L. Wheeler. Readers past middle-age, to whom the yellow paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance with their clandestine friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read wonderingly of the swaggering, snarling, laughing outlaw...
...innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare in the East; 2) similar tales of the great plains and the pioneer West; 3) strenuous stories of New York detectives such as Old Cap Collier and Old Sleuth, of cosmopolitan boys like Jack Harkaway, or rovers like Deadwood Dick; 4) respectable stories of righteous messenger boys, of Nick Carter, Diamond Dick, Jesse James and Yale's hyper-athlete Frank Merriwell...