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Seth Bullock and Sol Star built their hardware store at the corner of

Wall & Main Streets in 1876.

Star & Bullock Hardware Store on the corner of Wall and Main Streets, 1877. 

Photo courtesy Adams Museum.

The side of the Bullock Hotel still shows the advertising

used by the Star & Bullock Store, July, 2006, Kathy Weiser.

Seth Bullock and Sol Star were running a hardware business in Helena, Montana when gold was discovered in Deadwood in 1876. Seeing opportunity, they soon loaded up their wares and traveled to the booming miing camp in a an ox-drawn wagon piled high with mining equipment, dutch ovens, frying pans and chamber pots.  On the very night they arrived in the camp, Bullock began to auction equipment and supplies to the highest bidder. 

That was the beginning of their successful hardware store business.  Soon they bought a lot on the corner of Main and Wall Street (the current site of the Bullock Hotel) and within a year the partners built a new store and warehouse.

When a fire swept through the town in 1894, the wood-frame store facing Main Street was destroyed, leaving only the brick warehouse behind.

Changing tactics, Bullock, along with his partner, Sol Star, then decided to build Deadwood's finest hotel over the original store and warehouse. The Bullock Hotel's grand opening was held in April, 1896. The Bullock Hotel still greets guests today.

From the Rocky Mountain General Store

Vintage Magazines - Legends of America and the Rocky Mountain General Store has collected a number of Vintage Magazines, including True West, Frontier Times, Treasure and more for our Old West and Treasure Hunting enthusiasts.  For most of these, we have only one available.  To see this varied collection, click HERE!