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Submitted: 5/28/14 • Approved: 9/26/14 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R7677-G0-S3
21 Jul 1851 - 21 Jul 1878
Was 27 years old at his death
Sam Bass was a 19th-century American Old West train robber and outlaw. After failing at a series of legitimate enterprises, Bass turned to crime. He formed a gang and robbed the Union Pacific Railroad gold train from San Francisco, California. Bass and his men intercepted the train on September 18, 1877, at Big Springs, Nebraska, looting $60,000. To date, this is the single largest robbery of the Union Pacific.[citation needed]
Bass and his gang staged a string of robberies, yet never netted over $500 at any one time.[citation needed] In 1878, the gang held up two stagecoaches and four trains within 25 miles of Dallas, Texas, and became the object of a manhunt by Pinkerton National Detective Agency agents and by a special company of the Texas Rangers headed by Captain Junius Peak.
Contributed on 5/28/14
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