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This week in South Dakota history: Oct. 4-10

Seth Bullock and Theodor Roosevelt at the National History Museum, London.

A commerce-driven lawman credited with bringing law and order to a still-new mining town in the Black Hills continued to kindle a friendship with a future president 125 years ago this month.

Then–vice presidential candidate Teddy Roosevelt and Deadwood businessman and Deadwood father Seth Bullock — who became the town’s first sheriff — toured the region alongside one another in a campaign to bring national attention to Black Hills mining.

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