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Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West's Most Elusive Legend

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In the lead up to the Civil War, Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade kept the stagecoaches and the U.S. Mail running through Colorado, and helped launch the Pony Express, all of which kept California and its gold in the Union. With his reputation as a gunfighter, across the Great Plains he became known as "The Law West of Kearny." Since Slade's death in 1864, persistent myths and stories have defied the efforts of writers and historians, including Mark Twain, to capture the real Jack Slade. Despite his notoriety, the pieces of Slade ...

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Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West's Most Elusive Legend 2010, Westholme Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781594161124

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Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West's Most Elusive Legend 2008, Westholme Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781594160707

Hardcover