What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging down a set of rails at high speed? For the Old West’s most famous outlaws, including Jesse Jam

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

One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just aft

Describes some famous train robberies of the Old West and the involvement of such notorious outlaws as Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and the

The train robbery by the James-Younger gang in 1874 at Gads Hill, Missouri, was a big news item of the day. Americannewspapers from as far away as New York and