GREAT STAGECOACH ROBBERIES

Halt! Throw down that box!

In a time and place teeming with miners desperate to strike it rich in the gold rush, the slow-moving stagecoach filled with other men’s fortunes was often a temptation too great to resist. The treasure-laden express box quickly became a favorite target among road agents, making stagecoach robbery an enduring part of the mythology of the Old West.

William Brazelton was bold enough to elude authorities – for a time, anyway – by reversing the direction of his steed’s horseshoes. Arizona’s “petticoat bandit” Pearl Hart liked to rob her stagecoaches with a polite and ladylike .38 caliber revolver. And the last stagecoach robber on the frontier was practically caught red-handed – his bloody palm print being the first used as evidence in a U. S. Criminal prosecution.

Great Stagecoach Robberies of the Old West tells the stories of hauls too large, murders too cold-blooded, and bandits to eccentric to fade in obscurity.

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