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Could you give me some information on a Bud Ledbetter?

by | Feb 1, 2003 | Inside History

Could you give me some information on a Bud Ledbetter? Howard Ledbetter Rathdrum, Idaho James F. “Bud” Ledbetter was one of the great lawmen of the Southwest. He was born in Madison, Arkansas, and was deputy sheriff of Johnson County, Arkansas, and served in the lawless Indian Territory in the 1890s. He single-handedly captured four members of the Al Jennings Gang and was the nemesis of many desperados in that part of the country. During an interview when he was 80, Ledbetter said, “I was


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