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Sam Bass and His Gang Endure Pursuit and Deaths
The narrative covers Sam Bass and allies as they dodge a pursuing Kansas Army squad, their camp at a creek, and the far reaching hunt for train robbers Joel Collins and Heffrige. It recounts Collins and companion's capture at a Kansas station, their deaths in a gunfight, and the seizure of gold from the ponies. It also tracks Bass and Davis through Denton to San Antonio, the ambivalence with local sheriffs, and the later capture of Underwood as Tom Nixon before an eventual Nebraska jail escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Bass
Davis
Missouri
Platte River
Nebraska
Young
Republican
Bardsley
Ellis County
Hays City
Denver
Buffalo Station
Joel Collins
Kansas City Times
Texas
Fort Larned
Thompson
Union Pacific
Shriff Bardsley
Collins
Telegraph
Buffalo Plains
Allen
Bradsley
Solitary
Heffrige
Dallas
Dallas Herald
Nixon
Berry
Ogallala
Florida
Mexico
Anderson County
Black Hills
U. P. Express
Bank of Mexico
Big Springs
Underwood
Jackson
San Antonio
Denton
Denton County
Fort Worth
New Orleans
Cooke County
Cove Hollow
Bob Murphy
Rosston
Frank Jackson
Key
Frank
Jim Murphy
Murphy
Henry Underwood
Everhart
Grayson County
Tom Gerren
Express Company
Gerren
Quivive
Coke County
Clear Creek
Tom Nixon
Pinkerton
Kearney
Ile