☞Beware of Ginger Snaps …and Nick Carter, Master Detective!
☞Beware of Ginger Snaps …and Nick Carter, Master Detective! ☞Today in Old-West History -- On today’s date 132 years ago, Thursday, October 9, 1890, infamous Old-West outlaw & train-robber Reuben Houston “Rube” Burrow (1855-1890) met his earthly demise at the age of 34 when he was shot to death on the streets of the town of Linden in Marengo County, Alabama. ☞Rube Burrow & his gang robbed trains all over the South in the 1880s, twice near the frontier town of Marinda in Tarrant County, Texas. On June 4, 1887, Burrow & his gang boarded the Fort Worth bound Texas & Pacific Express at the Ben Brook Railroad Station in the town of Marinda (present-day city of Benbrook). Burrows had the engineer held at gunpoint & forced him to stop the train on the bridge over Mary’s Creek outside the town. This was meant to discourage passengers, who would have to “brave the heights & meagre footing” in order to interfere with the robbery. The bandits then forced the enginee...