This Jackson ended his days in Paris, Tennessee, on a trip from his home in Ste. Jackson died on Christmas eve 1837 while on a trip to Paris, Tennessee, from his home in Ste. Much better known in the region in the 1880s was a character named Teton Jackson. He trained his cattle hands in the art of changing brands by the use of acid and a red-hot frying pan bottom, together with a flat running iron and healing salves. He was supposed to spend the next fourteen years in the Idaho Penitentiary in Boise, but he escaped in August 1886.
Descendants live in Lander, Wyoming.
At the end of his life, Bradford was a ward of the county and died there impoverished. Much has been made of his height and size. The penitentiary records of Boise, Idaho, where he served time for thievery has a record of his height and weight in 1888. He must have seemed larger than his actual size. The earliest settlers arrived in Jackson Hole late in 1884, possibly early 1885.