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Ketchum, Black Jack, 1863-1901

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George Fitzpatrick Scrapbook

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Identifier: MSS-13-BC
Scope and Content A scrapbook containing clippings from a series of articles about Black Jack Ketchum written by George Fitzpatrick and Joe Bursey for the New Mexico State Tribune, 1932. Thomas E. "Black Jack Ketchum was the leader of a notorious band of train robbers in the Southwest. He was hanged in Clayton, N.M. on April 26, 1901. The series of articles constitutes a biographical sketch of Ketchum from childhood through his death.
Dates: 1932