Author Bob DeArment, a prolific writer and expert on the Wild West, wrote a gripping story on Johnny Slaughter, the stagecoach driver killed on the Cheyenne-Deadwood run.
The road agents were the Sam Bass gang from Texas in August, 1877. Some of them had driven a herd up the trail and after selling them, blew most of their money on whiskey, women and gambling (the rest they spent foolishly). They decided take up robbing stagecoaches.
The stage driver was 25-year-old Johnny Slaughter, the p
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