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Sam Bass Train Robbery

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Mesquite, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 45' 59.948424", -96° 36' 4.600908"
 
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    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.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Sam Bass Train Robbery Historical Marker Location Map, Mesquite, Texas