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What can you tell me about Jack Slade’s wife?

by | Aug 2, 2016 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

Dan Bird Cornelius, Oregon Not a lot. Her first name is believed to be Maria Virginia, but her last name is lost to history. Historians do not know how she met Joseph Alfred “Jack” Slade or anything about her life before him. They married around 1858, and Jack may have called her Virginia Dale. Either her name came from a grassy glade near where he established a stage station in Colorado in 1862 or he named the station after her. Old West author Leon Metz says Jack, despite all his shortc


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