Big Springs Train Robbery Gold: Sam Bass and Nebraska's 1877 Heist
Six masked men, three wooden boxes and $60,000 in fresh gold coins. Here's what's known about Sam Bass's Big Springs robbery and the treasure that never came home.
Masked men, express cars and strongboxes thrown off into the dark.
Six masked men, three wooden boxes and $60,000 in fresh gold coins. Here's what's known about Sam Bass's Big Springs robbery and the treasure that never came home.
Did Jesse James bury a fortune in Missouri? Train robberies, a Wayne County cave that fizzled in 1948 and a rented house in St. Joseph: here's what the record shows.
America's first train robbers grabbed about $96,000 at Marshfield in 1868, then vigilantes got to them. The money never turned up. Buried near Seymour, carried to Canada, or quietly laundered?
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