Great Train Robberies of the Old West (Hardcover) by Michael R. Wilson
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During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train robbery a capital crime. A few of the hundreds of train robberies stand out as thrilling and dangerous affairs, and the greatest of these (15-20) are included in this book.
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New; a pristine first edition, first printing. See scans and description. New York: MJF Books, 2007. R. Michael Wilson's 'Great Train Robberies of the Old West'. Octavo, jacket illustrated by David Sylvester, cream and brown boards with gilt spine imprinting, 167 pp. Frontis map, black and white illustrations and photographs. New. Stored archivally immediately upon purchase. A first-first example for the genre collector. Strongly researched, well-illustrated history of the topic. Includes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Sam Bass, 'Black Jack' Ketchum, The Collins Gang, The Wild Bunch, The Kit Joy Gang, robberies at Blackstone Switch, Peach Springs, Cochise Junction, and Devil's Canyon, lawmen 'Bucky' O'Neill, Billy Breakenridge, Harvey Whitehill, and 'the notorious train workers'.