“A high and efficient servant of the Overland, an outlaw among outlaws and yet their relentless scourge, Slade was at once the most bloody, the most dangerous and the most valuable citizen that inhabited the savage fastnesses of the mountains. —Roughing It, Mark Twain Jack Slade started driving teams for William Russell, Alexander Majors and William Waddell in 1849 and
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