The Last Train to Boothill

Just after midnight on March 13, 1912, on a lonely stretch of tracks in southwest Texas, a train sat silently in the darkness. Looking for ill-begotten gains, a hooded robber had his gun trained on three employees of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway. One of them, a pint-sized Wells Fargo messenger David Trousdale, pointed out a package of loot to the robber. When the outlaw bent over to grab it, Trousdale pulled an ice mallet from under his coat and clobbered the badma