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The article focuses on criminals James Buckley, Tom Taylor and Frank Jones who were known for looting in the Cimarron and Elizabethtown, New Mexico Territory. It mentions the stagecoach robbery that happened when driver Wade Adkins had stopped to water the horses. It cites a report in Santa Fe's "Daily "New Mexican" which reported the robbery. It discusses details related to Buckley's association with a character named Davy Crockett and the robberies that they carried out.

The article presents the story of schoolmistress and bride-to-be Eleanor Berry in Gilroy, California who was going to Grass Valley, California to meet and marry the miner Lewis J. Drebelbeis whom she had never met. Topics mentioned include the robbery incident held on July 27, 1873 on the stage coach she was riding, the brigand chief that led the robbery who was the bride groom, and the rumors on the short-lived marriage of the teacher.

The article focuses on Eugene Blair, a Wells Fargo stagecoach guard. On February 27, 1877, Blair was able to inflict a fatal gun shot to one of the robbers and tracked the other robber a few days later. Before working for Wells, Fargo and Co., Blair worked as a miner, jailer and Lincoln County deputy sheriff in Nevada. It recalls several instances wherein Blair has been successful in protecting his cargo from stage robberies including his transport of desperado Richard Sloan from Pioche, Nevada to Salt Lake City, Utah. INSET: A Double Barrel of Blair.

The article discusses a stagecoach robbery and the arrest and imprisonment of thief Lawrence Buchanen "Buck" English in Napa County, California. Emphasis is given to topics such as English and companion R. N Breckinridge's arrival in San Francisco, California after incarceration in Oregon, a shootout with Undersheriff Robert A. Brownlee, and English's reform while imprisoned at San Quentin prison.

An interview with retired law officer and author R. Michael Wilson is presented. Wilson claims researching legal executions, stagecoach robberies or train robberies offers something new at every turn of the page. He reveals the easiest means to manage data for any big accumulation of case histories was to establish the manner in which it was to be presented and create a roster of each subject heading. Wilson notes he has spent more time in researching on capital punishment.

The article focuses on the robbery staged by John Keener, William Dowdle and Amos Bierer on the stagecoach from Angels Camp on May 19, 1894. The robbers are said to have carried an undisclosed amount of cash and Wells Fargo expressman William Hendricks. The stagecoach was going to Milton when shot was fired for the stage driver to stop. At the end of the robbery, Keener died from the shot released by Hendricks while Dowdle was captured on May 28, 1894 and later named Bierer as the third party. Dowdle and Bierer served long sentences in prison.

The article features frontiersman Andy Hall. It notes that Hall was born in Scotland in 1848 and emigrated to the U.S. with his mother and two siblings in 1854 to settle in Toulon County, Illinois. It relates the experiences of Hall during an expedition with Major John Wesley Powell including his intervention in a brawl between two fellow expedition members. It also recalls how Hall, being a shotgun messenger for Wells Fargo & Co. bank, tried to prevent a stagecoach robbery until death.

Focuses on a double-barreled shotgun which was used as evidence in the investigation of an attempted stagecoach robbery in California in 1884. Description of the shotgun which was used by robbers Bert and Lon Aldridge; Background of the robbers; Information on the conviction of the Aldridge brothers for attempted stagecoach robbery.

The article offers information on several ways to help drivers overcome stagecoach travel with many hazards which include bandit attacks, nasty weather, and snoring passengers. It discusses the ability of the drivers to gauge the soundness of stagecoach's wheels by listening to the tones, employment of shotgun messengers to protect valuable freight, and use of whip work.

A review of the article "Stage-coach to Yosemite" by William B. Secrest related to the stagecoach robberies at the Yosemite Valley in California in 1880s, which appeared in the April 2014 issue of the journal "Wild West" is presented.

An excerpt from the article "Stagecoach to Yosemite" by William B. Secrest, published in the April 2014 edition of the periodical "Wild West" is presented.

Presents the question and answer advisory on the stagecoach robbery in Arizona. Involvement of Pearl Hart in the robbery; Creation of a sensation by Hart; Sentence given to Hart by the judge.