The story of Slade's decline due to drunken escapades in Denver and Laporte CO, and his subsequent replacement by Lem Flowers at the Virgina Dale station is documented in Chapter 15 "The Breaking Point" pages 263-275.
The story of Slade's decline due to drunken escapades in Denver and Laporte (60 miles nort of Denver). Flowers would then cover what had been Slade's Denver-LaPorte-Virgina Dale route; cf Chapter 15 "The Breaking Point" pages 263-275.