26 examples of deadwood in sentences

Again he made his escape, and soon afterwards he organized a desperate gang of outlaws who infested the country north of the Union Pacific railroad, and when the stages began to run between Cheyenne and Deadwood, in the Black Hills, they robbed the coaches and passengers, frequently making large hauls of plunder.

Poor Bill was afterwards killed at Deadwood, in the Black Hills, in a cowardly manner, by a desperado who sneaked up behind him while he was playing a game of cards in a saloon, and shot him through the back of the head, without the least provocation.

Any one acquainted with the species would have known at once that this private-car trip to Deadwood was to please the prosperous-looking gentleman with the side whiskers, and that it was made bearable only by the two smooth-shaven individuals in the background.

Then the whole outfit was started toward Deadwood.

They probably got to Deadwood.

"I shipped her to Deadwood with a little money.

Q.How is the hole formed in the deadwood of the ship in which the screw works?

Deadwood, hole in, for screw.

Screw frame in deadwood.

He is Scott Davis, once a guard on the Deadwood coach, and he carries a gun with twenty notches on the stock, each representing the death of a road-agent or other outlaw.

"Blessed are the poor"I tell yer, some day I'll be clearin' out, Leavin' all this dressin' nonsense, 'cause I'm goin' ter be a scout, Same as "Deadwood Dick," a-killin' all the Injuns on the plains: He do'n't comb his hair, you bet yer; no, nor wash, unless it rains.

The gold-bearing quartz veins of Deadwood are so closely associated with dikes of porphyry, that they may have been considered as illustrations of the potency of trap dikes in producing concentration of metals.

He himself had, in winter, followed a herd that drifted from Montana to Texas; and in summer he had twice ranged from Corpus Christi to Deadwood.

Our home will reach from Corpus Christi to Deadwood, and from the Missouri clear over to Mister Pacific Ocean.

He had found it an advantage to put the point of the propeller as near the deadwood as he could, without actually touching it, and in the large steamers, as well as in the tugs, the distance was a few inches.

Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota Apr. 1923.

Old Deadwood days.

Chemical Corn Exchange (E of Estelline Bennett); 19Feb63; R310914. BENNETT, ESTELLINE, ESTATE OF. Old Deadwood days.

Old Deadwood days.

HUESTON, ETHEL. Calamity Jane of Deadwood Gulch.

Old Deadwood days.

Chemical Corn Exchange (E of Estelline Bennett); 19Feb63; R310914. BENNETT, ESTELLINE, ESTATE OF. Old Deadwood days.

Old Deadwood days.

HUESTON, ETHEL. Calamity Jane of Deadwood Gulch.

Emett forged ahead; we heard him smashing the deadwood; and soon a yell proclaimed the truth of Jones' assertion.

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