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KINNEAR STAGE COACH ROBBERY  
   

KINNEAR STAGE COACH ROBBERY

From Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone go northwestward towards Benson about seven and a quarter miles to a poor road on your left just past an older windmill on your right. Follow that road westward until you arrive at a locked gate on the boundary of the San Pedro River National Riparian Conservation Area. From the gate hike a mile further toward the west to the old railroad grade. The site where the Kinnear Robbery took place is in a wash half a mile further south. Drew's Station will be on the right about halfway down the old rail bed.
Hysterical Journey To Historic Places

February 13th 2013
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">KINNEAR STAGE COACH ROBBERY An attempt was made to rob the Kinnear Stage on the night of March 15, 1881. The stage coach was carrying a twenty-six thousand dollar shipment of silver from the Tombstone mines. Silver shipments of that size were not uncommon but the Wells Fargo Express Company tried to keep them secret. Raw silver ingots ... read more
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