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Ultimately working for Cy Tolliver, Leon is playing both sides in a dangerous con. In exchange for opium to feed his dope habit, Leon acts as Al Swearengen's eyes and ears inside the Bella Union, the Gem's only real competition. But while serving as the Bella's faro dealer, Leon-in concert with Jimmy Irons-robbed and killed Wu's opium courier, who was bringing drugs for Wu to sell to Swearengen. After Swearengen executed Irons in reprisal, Bella owner Cy Tolliver saw an opportunity to use the killing of the white man as an excuse to stir unrest in town. He has instructed Leon to serve as rabble-rouser by speaking out against the Chinese, a tawdry role Leon seems born to play.
Discuss Leon on the Deadwood Bulletin Boards.
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Deadwood Nuggets
General George Custer, a great admirer of Wild Bill Hickok wrote: "Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains."
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