Exploded express car and safe from Wilcox Robbery, 1899

It wasn't long after the transcontinental railroad was complete that thieves devised ways of robbing the trains.  A famous robbery happened near Wilcox Station in Albany County, Wyoming, on June 2, 1899. A Union Pacific train was flagged down before it could cross a wooden bridge. Armed men forced the train crew to separate the locomotive from the carriages. Once the unattached locomotive had been driven across the bridge, the bridge was destroyed with dynamite. A safe in one of the carriages was blown open by dynamite, and the robbers escaped with cash and other valuables. The robbery was later traced to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. https://www.historynet.com/the-wilcox-train-robbery.htm

Resource Identifier
ah00176_0283
Citation
Elmer F. Lovejoy papers, Collection No. 176, Box 2, Folder 10, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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