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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.
Sam Bass Train Robbery is a historical marker in Mesquite, Dallas County, dedicated in 1968. It is one of 352 historical markers documented in Dallas County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 574 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.7668, -96.6010 near Mesquite. The nearest cataloged historic site is City of Mesquite (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Holley-McWhorter-Greenhaw Family, First Methodist Church of Mesquite, and Public Education in Mesquite.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5113006591. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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