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Jack Slade. Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade, (January 22, 1831 – March 10, 1864), was a stagecoach and Pony Express superintendent, instrumental in the opening of the American West and the archetype of the Western gunslinger. Born in Carlyle, Illinois, he was the son of Illinois politician Charles Slade and Mary Dark (Kain) Slade.
One of the best-known desperados the West ever produced was Joseph (Jack) A. Slade, agent of the Overland Stage Line on the mountain division, about 1860, and in charge of large responsibilities in a strip of country more than 600 in extent, which possessed all the ingredients for trouble in plenty.
Jack Slade was a gunfighter and murderer of the American West. Born in Illinois, Slade ran away while still a boy and became a cowboy in the Southwest, serving in the army in the Mexican War (1848). He gained a reputation as a vicious gunman when, in 1859 in Cold Springs, Colo., during a drunken.
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Jan 22, 2018 · Jack Slade: Western Jekyll and Hyde. by Dan Rottenberg 1/22/2018. Share This Article. A steadfast manager of the Central Overland stagecoach line and the Pony Express, the man called Slade could transform—especially when whiskey talked—into a ruffian bent on wrongdoing and self-destruction.
Sep 9, 2014 · March 10, 1864. Jack Slade, once the heroic peacekeeper of the Central Overland stagecoach line, is drunk and in an ugly mood on the main street of Virginia City, Montana. He fires his pistols at anything that fancies him. He curses, picks fights, overturns a milk wagon and strikes friends in the face after making a toast.
Nov 16, 2009 · 1864. Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade. Local hell-raiser Jack Slade is hanged in one of the more troubling incidents of frontier vigilantism. Slade stood out even among the many...
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Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade, (January 22, 1831 – March 10, 1864), was a stagecoach and Pony Express superintendent, instrumental in the opening of the American West and the archetype of the Western gunslinger. Jack Slade. Born in Carlyle, Illinois, he was the son of Illinois politician Charles Slade and Mary Dark (Kain) Slade.
