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The duo then formed an outlaw gang, preying primarily on stage coaches. [3] They notably robbed the Union Pacific Railroad gold train from San Francisco on September 18, 1877, intercepting the train at Big Springs, Nebraska and robbing over $60,000 (equivalent to about $1.86 million in 2022). [4]
28 paź 2014 · Newspapers loved it and referred to “Sam Bass & Company”. They called it the “Bass War”. The multifarious hunters and the Bass gang only clashed once, though, and that was by accident. Sam Bass seemed invisible...
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Sam Bass was an American Western outlaw who was finally gunned down by the Texas Rangers. Bass left his Indiana home at age 18 and drifted to Texas, where in 1874 he befriended Joel Collins. In 1876 Bass and Collins went north on a cattle drive but turned to robbing stagecoaches; in September 1877.
Sam made it back to Texas, all right side up with care - Rode into the town of Denton, with all his friends to share. Sam's life was short in Texas - three robberies did he do; He robbed all the passengers, mail and express cars too. Sam had four companions, each a bold and daring lad - Underwood and Jackson, Joe Collins and Old Dad.
Sam Bass was born in Indiana, as everyone who has ever heard the “Ballad of Sam Bass” knows. Born on a farm two miles from Mitchell, Indiana on July 21, 1851, he was soon orphaned and he and his brother and sisters moved to a nearby farm to live with their uncle and his nine children.
23 mar 2021 · In September 1877, Sam Bass and his outlaws rode to Big Springs, Nebraska, where they stopped a train. The gang had planned this particular train robbery in detail. The train they robbed was unlike the others they had stolen money from.
