Diamondfield Jack

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press

This is the storyof Diamondfield Jack Davis, a young cowboy hired in 1895 by a wealthy cattle company.  When two of the sheepherders Davis had been hired to intimidate were found dead, Davis was quickly tried, convicted and sentenced to death - despite there being no evidence presented against him.  The story of Diamondfield Jack is a classic example of frontier justice, or what passed for it in the late 19th century.