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Tornado Consolidated G&S M&MC, 1887, Seth Bullock [173464]

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Tornado Consolidated G&S M&MC, 1887, Seth Bullock    [173464]
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Tornado Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company stock certificate No. 47, issued to James Shields for 5000 shares ($5 per share) in Lead City, dated March 22, 1887. Whitewood Quartz mining district, Lawrence County, Dakota Territory. Signed by Seth Bollock (president) and Earnest May (secretary). Vignette (center) depicting mine workers underground.
Certificate was printed in two colors; pre-printed text is blue, stylization and central vignette in orange.

This piece is an exceptional piece of history, having the signature of the famous law-man Seth Bollock, the Canadian-American frontiersman, business proprietor, politician, sheriff, and U.S. Marshal credited with 'cleaning up' the wild west town of Deadwood, South Dakota. When appointed sheriff, Bullock confronted another famous American lawman, Dodge City Deputy Marshal Wyatt Earp, who was possibly a contender for the sheriff's job. Bullock told Earp that his services were not needed. A week later, Earp left Deadwood to return to Dodge City.

In 1884, three years before Seth Bollock signed this certificate, Bollock met and befriended Theodore Roosevelt while bringing a horse thief into Deadwood for trial. At the time, Roosevelt was a Deputy Sheriff in North Dakota, and the two shared coffee and beans on the rangelands near Belle Fourche. The pair quickly formed a friendship that would last through Bullock’s lifetime. Later on, President Theodore Roosevelt would appointed Bollock a U.S. Marshall in 1905, and was again four years later, in 1909, by President William Howard Taft.

Franklin Collection. Lawrence County Dakotas Franklin Collection