Points of Interest ~ Saddleback Mesa, NM
Posted by: YoSam.
N 34° 59.409 W 103° 44.816
13S E 614361 N 3872667
He was a bad man, ran a gang and also ran with the Hole in the Wall Gang (Yep, Butch & Sundance).
Waymark Code: WM6QMF
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2009
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Map Provided by: New Mexico Official Scenic Historic Marker.
County of Map: Quay County.
Location of Map: NM-209 (shown as "18" on map), 15 miles S. of Tucumcari.
Map on back of historic marker titled: "Black Jack Ketchum"
Marker Text:
BLACK JACK KETCHUM
The last of the train robbers, Black Jack Ketchum, who terrorized the railroads in the 1880s, killed two men near this spot and hid out in a cave near Saddleback Mesa to the Southwest. The swarthy bandit was wounded in his last robbery and hanged in 1901.
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