Some of his escapades are well worth retelling here , most of the information coming from memoirs that the colonel wrote himself a few years before his death in 1865 .
Col. Ketcham became one of the fiercest Indian fighters in this area of the Indiana Territory .
Some of Ketcham 's escapades are well worth retelling here , most of the information coming from memoirs that the colonel wrote himself a few years before his death in 1865 .
Col. Ketcham became one of the fiercest Indian fighters in this area of the Indiana Territory .