Officer Joel Warren
This file appears in: Bill Jackson: The Story of a Mixed-Race Indian in Early Spokane
Joel Warren launched his law enforcement career with the high-profile arrest of Bill Jackson. He would go on to be police chief of Spokane Falls and later a US Marshall in Alaska.
This file appears in: Bill Jackson: The Story of a Mixed-Race Indian in Early Spokane
Bill Jackson: The Story of a Mixed-Race Indian in Early Spokane
Sometime around 1860, Billy Jackson was born on the southeastern portion of Moran Prairie (near 57th Street on the modern-day South Hill). His father was a French-Canadian who had come west in the fur trade, his mother was Indian. The father…