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Deadwood’s Resident Boy Scout

by | May 1, 2005 | Features & Gunfights

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Timothy Olyphant’s portrayal of Seth Bullock in HBO’s Deadwood could be described as resolute, a term that aptly fit the real Seth Bullock. Bullock was born to a retired British sergeant major and his Scottish wife in 1849 (one report says 1847) near Windsor, Ontario. Rebelling against his father’s stern discipline, the young Bullock left home as a teenager and in 1867, he drifted to Helena, Montana. Bullock must have taken some of his stern upbringing to heart, for he showed enough str


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