The Reno Gang’s last robbery is their largest. May 28, 1868. Just two months after breaking jail, the Reno Gang makes its biggest score. Some 12...
The Big Score
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In His Brother’s Footsteps
Jim Burrow robbed Texas trains. Jim Burrow was an Alabama native who followed his brother Rube into the train robbery business. The outlaws pulled...
A Family Affair What are the connections between the Wild Bunch, the Sutton-Taylor Feud, and Pat Garrett?
O.C. “Deaf Charlie” Hanks is noted as a rider with the Wild Bunch, notably helping in the Wagner, Montana train robbery in July 1901. He was killed...
The Last Straw An Indiana train robbery led to a vigilante action.
For the Reno Gang of Indiana, their last big holdup was the last straw. They robbed a train near Marshfield, Indiana of some $97,000 (around...
The Wilcox Train Robbery
Who were the outlaws who robbed the train at Wilcox, Wyoming in June 2nd, 1899? That depends on who you ask. One version of the story goes, Harvey...
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,...
Robbing Trains Ain’t Rocket Science
Not everyone was cut out to be a train robber as it did require a certain amount of talent. A couple of Cochise County cowboys-turned-train robbers...
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...