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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting, thrilling read,
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This review is from: Slade: The True Story of the Notorious Badman (Paperback)
When sober, he was a gentleman. Give him a bottle and Jack Slade was a ruthless, treacherous man feared by nearly everyone.
From the age of thirteen when he killed his first man, Slade answered to no one and did as he well pleased. As an adult he performed many jobs related to the early west freighting business in Wyoming and Colorado. When promoted to superintendent of the Russell, Majors and Waddell freighting business in the 1850's, he took matters into his own hands and is said to have killed over two dozen bandits, rustlers, thieves, thugs, Indians and "undesirables" to safeguard this enterprise. He was thought highly of by the company for protecting their wagons and relay stations, and was later well regarded by many early settlers in the region for preventing attacks on their livelihood. Over time, Jack Slade simply went too far with the "Code of the West" and people shunned him for his reckless behavior. He met his demise in Montana. This is a fast paced, very readable biography of a psychologically twisted individual from the early West. The stuff Hollywood eats up! |
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Slade: The True Story of the Notorious Badman by Robert Scott (Paperback - July 1, 2004)
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