In some cases it left no hope and they became derelicts that lived about in the sod shanties on the outskirts of army posts, or ranches, like "Dirty Woman's Ranch," near old Wellsville and Camp Clarke. Calamity Jane became a combination of courage and vice.

Virginia Dale, attached to the notorious character Slade, had a certain strength of personality that forced a degree of respect. Joseph A. Slade never had a friend that staid true to colors like Virginia Dale Slade, his wife.

Virginia City, Montana, was named for the daring and pretty Mrs. Slade, and she was the regal queen for the period of its greatest importance. When the "Vigilantes," (and what atrocious deeds their activities cover) hung Slade in Montana, the yellow in him came to the surface. He wlas not the cool, daring assassin of his reputation, but a coward in the face of death. He begged and bellowed, but to no avail. They hung him just as they did those of better nerve.

Mrs. Slade had been sent for by friends, but she arrived too late, and he was dead. It broke her heart, and she heaped curses upon the perpetrators of the deed, and she cursed the silent friends of Slade, many of whom had witnessed the tragedy, demanding to know why one of them had not shot her husband, and

saved him from the "dog's death." She told the leaders of the vigilantes to beware, that death was upon their trail, and that everyone of them was marked. In the main, this prophesy came true, and the assassins of Slade were met with assassination until practically extermr inated. Slade was hung in 1863.