On this day in Texas history · April 10

Sam Bass Train Robbery

Mesquite · Dallas County · placed 1968

Outlaws & Lawmen

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Dallas County, Texas

The story

Sam Bass -- with Seab Barnes, Hank Underwood, "Arkansas" Johnson, and Frank Jackson -- held up a Texas & Pacific train here, April 10, 1878. They took $152, but missed hidden shipment of $30,000. In planning a bank robbery 3 months later, Bass was fatally shot by rangers.

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