Category: Gads Hill Train Robbery
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Cole and John Younger, Frank, and Jesse James, and Art McCoy pulled off the first peacetime train robbery in Missouri history at the whistle-stop town of Gads Hill. January 31, 1874.
Image: Jesse and Frank James, 1872. (Public Domain) On this day in history, January 31, 1874, Cole and John Younger, Frank, and Jesse James, and Art McCoy pulled off the first peacetime train robbery in Missouri history at the whistle-stop town of Gads Hill. They would manage to steal $12,000. Fresh from a stagecoach holdup…
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