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When Was the Heyday for Train Robberies?

Marshall Trimble

An Early Celebration

Mark Boardman

The Last Straw An Indiana train robbery led to a vigilante action.

Mark Boardman

The Last Train Robbery in Arizona

Marshall Trimble

Up Goes Yer Hands

Marshall Trimble

The Mysterious Case Of The Vanishing Train Robbers Several posses scoured the country but the bandits seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Marshall Trimble
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A Posse Of Train Robbers Burt insisted Three-Finger Jack was a liar and that he, Burt was too dumb to plan such a clever robbery.

Marshall Trimble
Grant Wheeler true west magazine

Flying Pesos Grant Wheeler and Joe George were a pair of wannabe train robbers that should have stuck to punchin’ cows.

Marshall Trimble
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You Can Never Go Home Outlaw Bill Whitley made a fatal mistake in going back to Texas.

Mark Boardman

Robbing Trains Ain’t Rocket Science

Marshall Trimble

The Train Robbers By the 1890's train robberies were big business in the West.

Marshall Trimble

Pursuing Outlaw Sam Bass The trail of the Union Pacific train robbers leads from South Dakota to Texas.

Johnny D. Boggs

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