OUTLAWS Ep. 5 | “Burt Alvord”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In the closing days of the Old West era, Burt Alvord forms an outlaw gang to rob trains in southern Arizona Territory. As the constable of Willcox, Arizona he has the perfect cover story: he can plan the robbery and then make sure his fellow lawmen don’t catch the bandits. His idea works well the first time, but it hits a major roadblock the second time in the form of Wells Fargo express messenger Jeff Milton. In the town of Fairbank, near Tombstone, Jeff Milton fights Burt Alvord’s gang in one of the final train robberies of the Old West. Thanks to our sponsor, Quince! Use this link for Free Shipping and 365-day returns: Quince.com/lotow Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.8	UK slash podcast to learn more. Jeff Milton was a 38-year-old express messenger with Wells Fargo, and he was not supposed to work on February 15, 1900.
0:45.3	Milton's job was to ride in the express car of trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad and guard safes and other valuables.
0:52.3	The Wells Fargo agent, who was supposed to have been on
0:55.4	the Southern Pacific run from Benson in Southern Arizona Territory to Nogales down by the
1:01.0	Mexican border, had called in sick. The trip from Benson to Nogales was a fairly straight shot,
1:07.7	with only one stop in between at a town called Fairbank.
1:12.3	Milton hadn't been doing the job in Arizona for very long, but his reputation preceded him.
1:18.1	He grew up in Florida during the Civil War and moved to Texas with his older sister and her
1:22.9	husband in the late 1870s. He was in his latter teenage years, and he started by working at his sister's
1:29.4	store in Navasota. Within a year or so, he was recruited by the Texas Rangers. Jeff Milton was excited.
1:37.0	He had heard stories of the famous Texas Rangers, but he soon learned that those stories were
1:41.8	brief moments of action, and the day-to-day life of a
1:45.0	ranger was not nearly as exciting as he imagined. But in April, 1881, right before his three-year
1:52.0	enlistment ended, he finally received his taste of action. Milton and two other Rangers were in the West Texas town of Colorado City when they heard
2:04.2	a commotion at a local saloon. Inside, the rangers found two feuding ranchers. Milton was the junior
2:11.7	man of the three rangers, so he stood back while the other two rangers tried to diffuse the situation. But when one of the
2:19.2	adrenaline-fueled ranchers fired his pistol at one of the Rangers, Milton drew his own pistol
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