How many Old West women robbed a train, bank or stagecoach?
Jim Merrill
Las Vegas, Nevada
Tall tales claim Belle Starr and Flora Mundis robbed trains and stagecoaches back in the day, but their legends obscure women who actually rode the outlaw trail.
Pearl Hart pulled one of the last stagecoach jobs, in 1899, when she and her boyfriend Joe Boot robbed the Florence-Globe stage in Arizona. She was sentenced to five years in the Yuma Territorial Prison, but released early in 1902.
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