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Within "Black
Hats" is a short story entitled "Short Rope At
Dawn" by
T. L. Davis. It is Davis' vision
of the last days of Joseph "Black Jack" Slade, a man written
about in Mark Twain's "Roughing It". Slade was the operator of
the Overland Stage route running from Julesburg, CO
to Ft.
Laramie, WY. It is an interesting and historically accurate read. |