Dakota Datebook: Limpy Jack Clayton

June 29, 2018 — Limpy Jack Clayton died in a Jamestown hospital on this day in 1893.

During his 60 years of wandering, Limpy made news wherever he went. He was described as a gambler, horse thief, a Stutsman County Attorney, gunman, saloon keeper, Civil War veteran, Indian fighter, stagecoach driver, whiskey trader and the secretary of the Sunday school. Major Dana Wright, called him an “all-aroun...