TWO DOLLARS

From the visitor center in Lordsburg go west on I-10 about 19 miles to the Steins Pass exit. It is an amusing old ghost town. Some days it is open and some days it isn't. The robbery site is two miles along the tracks to the west. It would be at a small wash near the hill in the picture. The wash would have been a likely spot for the robbers to have gathered fire wood.

Hysterical Journey To Historic Places

February 2nd 2013
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TWO DOLLARS Tom Ketchum and his merry band were broke as usual. They figured on robbing a train as a simple solution to their poverty, and as usual they figured to rely upon their malicious animal magnetism rather than upon any sort of native cunning to pull it off. Just past 6pm on Dec 9, 1897 two of the outlaws, Dave Atkins and Ed “ ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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