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Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade, [1] (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.
This undertaking, completed in early November 1863, made Jack Slade a real hero in the eyes of the people who called Virginia City and Nevada City home. Hailed a hero, Slade had a brief period of quiet living before he squared off in an argument with a local lumberman.
In the 1850s and early 1860s, Slade was known as the “Law West of Kearny.”. As a wagon master and stagecoach superintendent, he organized mobs of unruly men and animals into efficient teams capable of defying floods, droughts, blizzards, outlaws and hostile Indians.
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.
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...