Great Train Robberies of the Old West

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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Two Dot Books
Published: 11/01/2006
ISBN: 9780762741502
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.44w x 0.52d

Review Citations: Kliatt 05/01/2007 pg. 39
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 161