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Great Train Robberies
of the Old West
Great Train Robberies of the
Old West
ISBN 0762741503 Published: 2006
“Smitty, let’s go and rob a
train or open a real estate office. Anything decent and honest. I’m
tired of working day and night through the spring, summer and fall,
stealing cattle for someone else and then waiting all winter for the
chance to do it all over again.”
Daniel M. Harvick, 1888
Stick ‘em up
Rails reached the West toward
the end of the 1860s, and it wasn’t long before road agents graduated
from robbing stagecoaches to robbing trains. For outlaw gangs, there
was no venture riskier than a train robbery. But, then again, no other
line of work offered such potential for instant wealth.
Great Train Robberies of the
Old West is an action-packed collection of gangs too notorious, hauls
to large, and murders to cold-blooded to fade into obscurity.
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