UPDATES: The Lone Bandit and Shalako We received some feedback about our June 2007 ATM column: Writing in about the cowboy on horseback who robbed a Western bank in the 1930s, Don Bullis of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, states the story is true. “The Albuquerque Journal of June 2, 1932, reported that the First National Bank in Hatch was robbed of ‘approximately’ $2,000 on June 1, 1932. The robber escaped on horseback (on a black horse, according to a later story). He used a piece of adhesive tap


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