Diamondfield jack davis biography
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Diamondfield Jack
Grover makes two significant errors and two significant omissions that deserve mentioning. First, is the constant misspelling of the family name. It's Cummins (like the engine company) not Cummings. This is a common error I have encountered in the history of the Deep Creek homicides. The book refers to Dan's clothing being given to "T.M. Cummings." It is actually F.M. Cummins, my grandfather (p.30). Grover quotes, without citation, "Frank Redke" calling Oakley a "hot bed of Mark Hanna," a reference to William McKinley's campaign manager and a way of
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Diamondfield Jack
For other people with the same name, see Jack Davis.
Jackson Lee "Diamondfield Jack" Davis (12 August 1863 – 2 January 1949) was pardoned for the 1896 Deep Creek Murders in Idaho and would later strike it rich in Nevada,[clarification needed] where he established several mining towns, one named after his nickname "Diamondfield".[1][2][3]
Life
[edit]Davis got his nickname when he went west to Silver City, Idaho on the rumor of a diamond strike. The rumor led to ingenting but after talking so much about it he got the nickname "Diamondfield Jack". After the failed prospecting attempt Jack was hired by Sparks-Harrell cattle company on the Idaho-Nevada border. Davis' job was to keep sheepherders off the cattle's land and after a confrontation that led to wounding of a sheepherder named William Tolman. The sheepherders would change their bed every night to a different position so that the head of the bed would be in a d
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The Ballad of Diamondfield Jack
April 23, 2020
The story of a hired gun, murder suspect, and mining magnate.
BY RON SOODALTER
To the cattlemen on the Nevada/Idaho frontier of the 1890s, sheepherders were anathema. So virulent was the feeling against them that the owners of the vast Sparks-Harrell boskap Company of northern Nevada and southern Idaho hired a man to rid their range of sheepmen. His name was Jackson Lee Davis, and his brief tenure as a hired gun was but one facet in the life of this unusual man. By the time of his death, Jack Davis had established himself as a thoroughgoing legend of the western frontier.
Despite the Hollywood version of boskap raising in the Old West, few ranchers employed a gun-for-hire to eliminate rustlers or sheepherders. This is not to säga it wasn’t done; around 1895, a few of the larger spreads in Wyoming brought in a “regulator” named Tom Horn to “clean up” the range, and at $500 a head, he was well on his way to doing so when he was conv