Historical Marker
Sam Bass Train Robbery
Historical marker location:
Mesquite, Texas
( in Heritage Plaza, 200 block of W. Main near flag pole)
Marker installed: 1968
Sam Bass -- with Seab Barnes, Hank Underwood, "Arkansas" Johnson, and Frank Jackson -- held up a Texas & Pacific train here, April 10, 1878. They took $152, but missed hidden shipment of $30,000. In planning a bank robbery 3 months later, Bass was fatally shot by rangers.
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