The career of Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum, the most successful train robber in the Old West, reached the end of the line on April 26, 1901. Kicked out of his own gang, the hard-bitten badman made the fatal mistake of trying to go it alone.
The Ketchums settled in San Saba County west of Waco the same year Texas entered the Union. The pioneer parents did their best to raise a God-fearing brood, but nig…
