Seth Bullock was not a well-known frontiersman prior to the 2004 HBO television series “Deadwood,” which featured him as its main character. However, historians before and since the show’s brief three-season run have always recognized the sheriff as fascinating. Portrayed on the show as a decent man whose inherent goodness was often contradicted by a violent temper, the real Bullock was a level-headed and practical realist, a frontier renaissance man who was by turns a politician, businessman, lawman, soldier, and even a pioneering forest service superintendent who helped put the city of Deadwood, South Dakota, and the Black Hills region on the map….