Jim Burrow robbed Texas trains. Jim Burrow was an Alabama native who followed his brother Rube into the train robbery business. The outlaws pulled...
In His Brother’s Footsteps
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How was reward money collected in the Old West? Was it paid out by local law enforcement, banks, the court system, or did it come from some other...
The Last Train Robbery in Arizona
The men involved in Arizona's last train robbery obviously watched too many of those old-time Western pictures. The robbery in occurred on May 15th,...
Train Robber in Disguise The Wild Bunch held up a train…where another train robber was a passenger.
There’s an irony to a train robbery pulled by Kid Curry and two accomplices on June 7, 1904. They stopped the Denver and Rio Grande near Parachute,...
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,...