| Summary: | Front of card: "Rube Burrow / 1855-1890 / Many mysteries remain of the life and time of Rube Burrow. Today, we wonder and speculate. / Once when surrounded, covered with a dozen revolvers, Rube was told to hold up his hands. Laughing as he backed away, he said 'Not Today', pulled off his shoes with a revolver in each hand and ran away." Back of card: "Barbara Carruth author of Rube Burrow Alabama Desperado said 'Rube Burrow was daring, reckless, witty and loved his family. He was very determined. I found where one person said, 'He's got grit' and that he had. He was called ignorant by those who tried to capture him. But ignorant or not, reports are that Southern Express Company spent over$20,000 trying to capture him. Hundreds of detectives and lawmen chased him over several states and in the end, two Black men, Jesse Hildreth and Frank Marshall did what many detectives had tried to do. In an interview Jesse Hildreth said they didn't know who he was, if they had known they would not have bothered him.'"
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