"Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson (1847-1887) was an American lawman of the Wild West and one of Wyatt Earp's possemen during his "Vendetta Ride".
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John Blunt was born in Missouri in 1847, but he later moved to Deadwood, South Dakota in 1876 under the alias of "Jack Johnson", fleeing Missouri after a violent street clash in Webb City. He killed two men in a gunfight over poker, and he came to know Wyatt Earp during Earp's buffalo hunting days in Deadwood. In 1878, he, Sherman McMaster, Curly Bill Brocius, and Pony Diehl rode into Arizona on a cattle drive, and Johnson settled in Tombstone, where he reunited with Earp after a shootout on the town streets. He joined Earp on his "Vendetta Ride" against the Cochise County Cowboys in 1882, and he then escaped through Colorado and then to Texas. He died of tuberculosis in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1887, where he had joined the Freemasons.
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