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“I Hold for No One!” Road Agents Attempt to Rob Kinnear’s Stage Near Contention

by | Apr 1, 2005 | Inside History

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March 15, 1881 Two California boys are riding the box on this chilly night along the San Pedro River bottom. Eli “Bud” Philpot, a top-rated stage driver who hails from Calistoga, California (about 60 miles north of San Francisco), and shotgun messenger Bob Paul, all six feet six of him, a former sheriff of Calaveras County (east of Sacramento). They are about halfway to Benson, after leaving Tombstone several hours earlier. After passing through Contention City, the Kinnear & Co. s


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