This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YlB.2ACI/966.1 Message Board Post: Train robberies weren't common back then. There was a train robbery in Collin County, southwest of Paris (some distance). Sam Bass was robbing trains in North Texas 1877-1878.