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Train Robberies In The Southwest

by | Jul 15, 2019 | True West Blog

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As the railroads expanded throughout the West in the 1880s it opened new opportunities for the outlaws. The 1890s saw an epidemic of train robberies in the West with 261 in that decade alone with 88 people killed and 86 wounded. In the Southwest, the first half-dozen train robberies on the Southern Pacific four took place in Arizona or New Mexico. According experts there should not be less than


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