Kid Curry’s Last Gunfight

June 9, 1904 Two days earlier, the westbound San Francisco Express—train no. 5—was robbed near a shipping station in Colorado known as Parachute. Three robbers got away with an undetermined amount of loot (some stated as little as $30; others claimed the take was much larger). The three robbers fled on foot in a rainstorm to a stolen rowboat and crossed the Colorado River. They mounted the horses they had stashed there and rode east toward Battlement Mesa. Many locals assumed th