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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.
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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Sep 1, 2008 · Learn about the life and adventures of Jack Slade, a legendary freighter and stagecoach driver who fought Indians, outlaws and rivals in the 19th-century West. Follow his trail from Julesburg, Colorado, to Virginia City, Montana, and visit some of the places he knew.
Jan 22, 2018 · Learn about the life and legend of Jack Slade, a stagecoach manager and Pony Express founder who transformed from a hero to a villain. Discover how alcoholism, violence and the Civil War shaped his fate in the American West.
Sep 9, 2014 · Jack Slade was a former stagecoach driver and a feared gunfighter in the West, but he had only one documented killing. Learn about his life, death, reputation and the quest to return his body to Illinois.
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Nov 16, 2009 · Local hell-raiser Jack Slade is hanged in one of the more troubling incidents of frontier vigilantism. Slade stood out even among the many rabble-rousers who inhabited the frontier-mining town...
