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Rube Burrow robbed another Texas & Pacific Express in a manner very similar to the robbery in Benbrook. [21] Genoa, Arkansas: 9 December 1887 Rube Burrow and Jim Brock The men stopped a St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railroad express train in Genoa, Arkansas.
Prior to the development of railroads, stagecoach robbery was common. [1] Especially in Europe and North America, stagecoaches and mail couriers were frequently targeted for their cargo. As coaches and horses were phased out in favor of trains, which could haul far more freight and passengers, so too did robbers adjust their targets. [2]
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Overall, the outlaws made off with "$60,000 [equivalent to $1,716,750 in 2023] in newly minted twenty-dollar gold pieces from the express car and $1,300 plus four gold watches from the passengers", [3] accounting for the "first and greatest robbery of a Union Pacific train" and placing Bass in the midst of a crucial turning point in his life.
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Samuel Bass (July 21, 1851 – July 21, 1878) was a 19th-century American train robber, outlaw, and outlaw gang leader.Notably, he was a member of a gang of six that robbed a Union Pacific train in Nebraska of $60,000 in newly minted gold from San Francisco, California.
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