Will McLaury accepted the testimony at the OK Corral hearing. Ike Clanton’s testimony at the OK Corral hearing was dramatic. He accused the Earps...
Believing Ike Clanton
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Robbery
Pearl Hart: “The Girl Bandit”
For most of her life Pearl Hart lived in dismal obscurity. She got her chance for fifteen minutes of fame following a bungled stagecoach robbery on...
Earp And The Violinist Baby brother Warren must not have liked music.
Warren Earp was in and out of trouble for nearly 20 years after the OK Corral fight and the Vendetta Ride. In 1893, living in Yuma, Arizona, Warren...
Cherokee Bill
Bold, Brazen Bank-Robbing Bandit of the Indian Territory
Baldy Gives It Up A stagecoach driver was the ongoing target of bandits.
Baldy Green was either the unluckiest stage driver in the Sierra Nevadas—or the most corrupt. He drove the route between Virginia City, Nevada and...
Riverside Station Stagecoach Robbery On August 10th, 1883 the Florence-Globe Stagecoach was robbed at the remote Riverside Station on the Gila River by the Red Jack Almer gang...
On August 10th, 1883 the Florence-Globe Stagecoach was robbed at the remote Riverside Station on the Gila River by the Red Jack Almer gang. Wells...
Long On Guts, Short On Memory John Chapman wanted a reduced sentence, but…
Roy Gardner was long on guts and short on memory. He took $187,000 during a May 1921 robbery of a train just outside Sacramento. The next morning,...
The Heyday of Train Robberies
The 1890s saw an epidemic of train robberies with 261 in that decade alone. Eighty-eight people were killed and eighty-six wounded. According...