The Deadliest Outlaws: The Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch, Second Edition (A.C. Greene Series)

He has mined unpublished sources, family records, personal reminiscences, trial transcripts and other court papers, official correspondence and reports, census returns, and contemporary newspapers to sort fact from fiction and provide the definitive truth about Ketchum and numerous other outlaws, including Will Carver, Ben Kilpatrick, and Butch Cassidy.The book is published by University of North Texas Press.. The career of the Ketchum Gang was under way. In his mid-twenties he left home for the life of an itinerant trail driver and ranch hand. Jeffrey Burton has been researching the story of the Ketchum Gang and related outlaws for more than forty years. At the age of nine, he found himself an orphan and was raised by his older brothers. He returned to Texas, murdered a man, and fled. Their downfall was brought about by what one editor called "the magic of the telephone and telegraph," by quarrels between themselves, and by their reckless defiance of ever-mounting odds. A yea

"Why bad guys went bad!" according to C.H. Spude. Burton, a British author, has spent several decades gathering the data for this well-researched and well-organized account of Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum and associates, as well as members of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang. It is an essential resource for anyone researching the bad guys of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah (oh, don't forget Texas).. A stellar history book Jerry J. Lobdill As a grass roots historian of the 1880-1920 era in West Texas and Southern New Mexico I find this to be a vital reference. Burton is meticulous in his work, a true scholar. The stories are told in an engaging way for those who read for pleasure, but the depth of knowledge is obvious to the history student, and the work is packed with end notes and references.My copy is the paperback edition of 2012, published by the University of North Texas Press. It is Number 8 in the A. C. Greene series.This book will have a prominent place in my collection of references.. "All you'll ever want to know on the Ketchum Gang" according to Tom B.. One of the most detailed and interesting books I've ever read on the Ketchum gang and it's connection with Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. It was filled with detailed infromation on the Ketchums history, each robbery and gunfight and what happened to all the participants. A well worthwhile read.