Letter from Sam Bass in Denton, TX to His Uncle, David L. Sheeks in Mitchell, IN, Oct 27, 1872
This is a copy of a letter kept in the Sheeks family. It may have actually been written by Charley Brim.
Ca 1875, Sam became the famous leader of a gang of bandits that robbed railroads. Three years later on 21 June 1878, in Round Rock, Williamson Co, TX,he died of wounds suffered in an ambush
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