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Going for the Gold

by | Apr 5, 2019 | True West Blog

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In 1864 and ’65, a Confederate-sympathizer group called Ingram’s Partisan Rangers pulled a series of stage robberies in northern California. The band got an untold amount of gold, which they intended to use to continue the Civil War. But local lawmen (including future Wells Fargo Chief Detective James Hume) went after the outlaws. In a series of gunfights and captures, the officers broke up the ga


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