EP. 73: Train Robbery at Baxter’s Curve
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Ben Kilpatrick was an outlaw. He rode with Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and the Wild Bunch into western infamy. The law caught up with him and he went to prison where he met Ole Hobeck. They two decided when they got out, they’d go into business together. Being outlaws, that business was train robbery. So they set out for the barren landscapes and lonely railroad tracks of West Texas to score big. But they didn’t count on meeting Wells Fargo agents David Trousdale and J.K. Reagen. They would soon wish they had thought twice…Hear about one of the last train robberies in Texas in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the award-winning Texas History Podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm your host Ken Wise and I am very grateful that you tuned in today |
| 0:17.2 | to share in a little Texas history. |
| 0:19.1 | This episode is being released in August 2019, so I hope your summer is winding down in good |
| 0:25.6 | fashion. You might have time for one more quick road trip if you hurry before it's |
| 0:30.7 | back to the grind so I hope you get to take that time off. |
| 0:34.0 | There's a lot happening around Wies about Texas World Headquarters. |
| 0:38.0 | We've had some great events down in the Houston area that I've gotten to be a part of. One that was very special. I got to introduce the great author Stephen Herrigan at a in an event celebrating the upcoming release of his new history of Texas that occurred down |
| 0:56.1 | at the Bryan Museum in Galveston. |
| 0:57.9 | The Bryan Museum has made an appearance on this podcast several times. |
| 1:01.3 | It's a very interesting place. You should definitely check it out. |
| 1:04.2 | I also had the pleasure of hosting a Texas Ranger History Symposium in Fredericksburg, |
| 1:10.1 | Texas in the heart of the Hill Country. A few weeks ago that symposium was put on by the |
| 1:14.8 | former Texas Ranger Foundation at the Texas Ranger Heritage Center. Man we had a |
| 1:19.5 | great day we got to hear about the East Texas Troubles from Dr. Jody Ginn who has a new book of that same title. |
| 1:27.2 | And we got to hear about Texas Ranger Will Wright from Dr. Rick McCaslin at the University of North Texas who's got a book |
| 1:35.2 | coming out about a year from now as he's fond of putting it talking about |
| 1:40.8 | Will Wright and it's going to be a great one. |
| 1:43.8 | I've been doing a lot of speaking around the state and I've got a very interesting |
| 1:49.5 | couple of podcasting site visits perhaps coming up so stay tuned for some we're going to |
| 1:56.3 | take Wies about Texas on the road a little bit I want to mention one thing that's |
| 2:00.9 | come up from some of my listeners and that is my service as a |
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