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Deputy Samuel Jenkins
Grand County Sheriff's Office
Date of death: May 26, 1900
Cause: Gunshot wound


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A member of theGrand County  posse, deputized civilian Samuel Jenkins and Grand County Sheriff Jesse Tyler were gunned down whle searchibg for rustlers in the Book Cliffs near Thompson Springson May 26, 1900. Their alleged killer, Kid Curry, died for years later in a botched train robbery in Colorado.

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