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San Antonio man hailed as hero after he stops last full-sized train robbery in Texas in 1912
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This photo of the Wild Bunch taken in Fort Worth in 1900 shows Ben Kilpatrick, “The Tall Texan” seated in the center between Harry Longabaugh, known as the Sundance Kid (left), and Butch Cassidy (right). Kilpatrick was killed in March 2012 during the last full-sized train robbery in Texas by the freight manager on the train, who was from San Antonio./Associated Press Files
Reader Carl J. Collazo recently sent in information he had found about the last full-sized train robbery in Texas, the 1912 Baxter’s Curve robbery near Dryden, and asked for further information about one of the robbers, Ben Kilpatrick, who was part of the Wild Bunch outlaw gang.