The newsboy on the Galveston Strand complained as John Henry lost himself in the details of the West’s most daring train robbery. “You gonna buy that paper, Mister, or just stand there readin’ all day?” And waiting alongside the bridge to greet the terrified passengers as they struggled from the wreckage was a white-robed gang of train robbers brandishing pistols and rifles and shouting the Rebel yell… The ground shook with the impact as steam rose from the troubled creek bed. The locomotive thundered down the muddy bank of Turkey Creek spewing smoke and cinders from the chimney and lolling to one side, twisting the couplers and throwing the passenger cars skyward. He slammed the engine into reverse and the train shuddered and groaned, then jumped the rails. 2, bound from Council Bluffs to Des Moines, kept up its dizzying speed of forty-miles an hour, horsed bandits would have a hard time catching up with her.īut as the train neared Adair, Iowa, it slowed for a grade and a curve and the engineer hollered out that something was slung across the tracks. As long as the Rock Island Line’s passenger train No. Although he knew about the $100,000 in gold rumored to be aboard, enough to make any outlaw eager, no one had ever robbed a moving train west of the Mississippi before. The last thing on his mind was a train robbery. She joined Colorado Matters host Nathan Heffel from Charleston, South Carolina. Her novel, published as a trilogy, is called "Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday." ![]() Holliday actually spent a lot more time in Colorado than in Arizona, popping up in Denver, Leadville, Trinidad, Gunnison and other places across the state.Īuthor Victoria Wilcox spent more than 18 years studying the Georgia-born dentist turned gunslinger. She's considered a Holliday expert. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, is seared into American memory. After the smoke cleared, lawman Wyatt Earp and his gambling outlaw friend Doc Holliday became mythical figures. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881, in which he fought alongside Marshall Wyatt Earp in the shootout with the Clanton gang.īut the gunfight at the O.K. ASSOCIATED PRESS Doc Holliday, ex-dentist and western gunfighter, is shown in a portrait made after the infamous gunfight at the O.K.
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