The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11833   Message #90164
Posted By: Les B
27-Jun-99 - 04:18 PM
Thread Name: Songs in Gold Camps of 1800's
Subject: RE: Songs in Gold Camps of 1800's
Alice - at Bannack, outside the Graeter House and the Hotel Meade (I think), mid afternoon, both days. At Virginia City, the train station(?) 2 to 4, or 3 to 5 (inside?) -- our group's "social secretary" has the details at the moment. I'll learn all at our next rehearsal.

Are you aware of any songs written about Jack Slade who was hanged by the vigilantes there in Virginia City ? His wife was reportedly a handsome woman who rode a big black horse "hell-bent-for-leather" over the hill to beg for his life, but arrived too late. As you're probably aware, she refused to bury him in the area but pickled him in whiskey in a tin tub over the winter and had him hauled to Salt Lake City the next spring. I've also read that several months later she and one of the vigilante officers were the couple that lead out the dancers at a fancy ball later that year. (And she knew who she was dancing with !) It seems someone would have written a song about this. Les.