America's First Train Robbery
On October 6, 1866, the Reno brothers boarded an Ohio & Mississippi train near Seymour, Indiana, and invented a brand-new American crime: robbing a moving train.
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The Night the Legend of Billy the Kid Was Born
On the night of July 14, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett tracked the 21-year-old outlaw Billy the Kid to a darkened bedroom in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.