The Wilcox train robbery also known as the Wilcox Holdup was a train robbery that took place in the early morning of June 2, 1899 in the vicinity of Wilcox in Albany County, Wyoming. A Union Pacific train was flagged down before it could cross a wooden bridge. Armed men forced the train crew to separate the locomotive from the carriages. Once the unattached locomotive had been driven across the bridge, the bridge was destroyed with dynamite. A safe in one of the carriages was blown open by dynamite, and the robbers escaped with cash and other valuables.[1] The amount stolen was reported as much as US$36,000.[2] The robbery was considered unsolved at the time and later traced to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch.

References

  1. ↑ "The Wilcox Holdup". The Pittsburgh Press. September 29, 1905. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Daring Train Robbery". Napier's Daily Telegraph. "Papers Past", in the collection of the National Library of New Zealand. 15 July 1899. Retrieved 4 February 2013.

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