Great Stagecoach Robberies of the Old West
ISBN 0762741279 Published:
2006
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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