Joseph Lee Heywood is considered the hero of Northfield, MN, the man who bluffed the James-Younger Gang out of emptying …
Tag: Robbery
How Often Were Post Offices Robbed on the Frontier?
How often were post offices robbed on the frontier? Gerald Jantzen – Okeene, Oklahoma Robbing a post office wasn’t…
Rube Burrow and the Burrow Gang
Most have never heard to the Burrow gang but by 1888, they had become the most notorious gang of train robbers since the…
A Litany of Train Robberies
Credited with pulling the first peacetime train robbery in America goes to the four, relatively unknown, Reno brothers o…
Last of the Fast Guns The Pinkertons’ incredible chase of an outlaw popularly known as the Derby Kid.
Few would argue that names made a difference in the Old West. The easy-on-the-tongue alliteration of “Jesse James,” the …
The Empty Sleeve Gunfight The perils of working in the stagecoach business sometimes hit closer to home.
When Joseph W. Evans passed away suddenly on May 28, 1902, at his home in Phoenix, Arizona Territory lost one of its mos…
The Final Years of the James-Younger Gang
The James-Younger gang’s incredible streak of good luck ran out in Northfield, Minnesota, on September 7th, 1876 w…
The Last Stage Robbery? Marking the 100th anniversary of an almost-forgotten holdup.
The nation’s last stagecoach robbery took place on December 5, 1916, at Nevada’s Jarbidge Canyon. Calling it a “stagecoa…
A Wannabe Badman
James Bliss was a loser. Time and time again, he tried and failed to be a noted Old West badman. A gunfighter, rustler, …
Marion Hedgepath, the Debonair Bandit
Someone asked me the other day why Marion Hedgepath isn’t a better-known outlaw. I have at least a dozen outlaw encyclop…