Jake Snow was a resident of Lusk, Wyoming. He was drifter, generally, doing odd jobs. Snow joined Joe and Clancy O'Doole as a hunting party in the employ of John Bell Hatcher in 1891. Along with O'Doole and Joe, Snow briefly travelled to prehistoric Wyoming. He helped kill the torosaurus that had been pulled forward in time. Like Joe and O'Doole, Snow believed the dinosaur to be some sort of diseased buffalo.