A True West reader recently asked, did the Butterfield Overland and Mail in Arizona ever come under attack? And where in the Arizona were the stagecoaches most likely to be robbed?
The Butterfield Overland stage did come under Apache attack on at least two occasions. One attack was a Stein's Pass, near the Arizona and New Mexico border where they fired upon the coach killing the driver and conductor.
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