Seth Bullock meets Theodore Roosevelt, at this…

Seth Bullock meets Theodore Roosevelt, at this time a deputy sheriff from Medora, North Dakota, in 1884 while bringing a horse thief known as Crazy Steve into custody on the range, near what will become the town of Belle Fourche.

The two quickly become lifelong friends, Roosevelt later saying of Bullock, "Seth Bullock is a true Westerner, the finest type of frontiersman."

Bullock, having attained some stability in Deadwood, had brought his wife Martha Eccles Bullock and daughter to town from her parents' home in Michigan, where they had been living during this period.

They had one daughter, Margaret, at the time of Martha's arrival in Deadwood, and they subsequently have another daughter, Florence, and a son, Stanley.

Bullock and Sol Star had purchased a ranch where Redwater Creek met the Belle Fourche River and dubbed it the S&B Ranch Company.

Bullock is also credited with introducing alfalfa farming to South Dakota in 1881.

Later he becomes a deputy U. S. Marshal, partners with Star and Harris Franklin in the Deadwood Flouring Mill, and invests in mining, the local growth industry.

Bullock and Star eventually expand their business interests to the towns of Spearfish, Sturgis, and Custer.