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Bits and Pieces to Chew On

by | Sep 5, 2018 | Uncategorized

Contemporary scholars remark there were few bank robberies in the Old West.  That’s because there were few banks. Money was kept in the mercantile store safe or someplace similar. Bisbee didn’t have a bank so the Goldwater Casteneda store served as the town’s bank. The so-called Bisbee Massacre occurred when five outlaws gunned down three men and a pregnant woman during a robbery of th


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