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Black Jack Ketchum

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Black Jack Ketchum, the last of the train robbers, terrorized the railroads in the 1880's, 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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