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New Mexico: "You Ketchum, We Kill 'Em." "While in New Mexico, visit an execution!" Ah,
for the days when men were men, and people brought picnic lunches to watch them kill each other.I'm sure old Black Jack deserved his fate and all, but what did WE do to deserve this post card? Still, I guess it could have been
worse. The photo could have been taken about one minute later. (Since we wrote that, the Archive has received an interesting
historical addendum from Daniel Gallagher. It seems there was another post card even tackier than this one.) Caption: "Sheriff Salome Garcia, placing hanging noose on Black Jack Ketchum, April 26, 1901, Clayton, New Mexico."Credits: Wheatley Photo |
