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Did a cowboy on horseback really rob a bank in New Mexico back in the 1930s?

by | Jun 1, 2007 | Inside History

Did a cowboy on horseback really rob a bank in New Mexico back in the 1930s? Thomas Dancik Cleveland, Ohio Texas storyteller Paul Patterson told a tale about a cowboy named Gid Redding. He had a special way with rattlesnakes, taming horses, cooking grub and handling little pigs so they wouldn’t squeal. “A tall man with his face swathed in adhesive tape (or some such) and riding a black horse robbed the bank of Hatch, N.M. of $5,000. The man turned out to be Gid Redding, a man with whom I ba


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