The First Train Robbery in Washington Territory

Masked gunmen held up a Northern Pacific Pullman car near Hot Springs, terrorizing passengers and sparking a region-wide manhunt.

“You can imagine a man, masked, clothed in a long coat, black slouch hat, and with an ungainly-looking mask, consisting simply of a handkerchief flapping over his face with two eye holes cut in it. Now your man comes to you with soul-curdling oaths. He says, shoving the muzzle of a revolver right up into your face: 'You come up.' If you don't 'come up' you're a fool.”