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The Wild West Extravaganza

Rube Burrow | The Robinhood of Alabama

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8667 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Rube Burrow got his start as an honest man. A simple cowboy and farmer with a wife and children. But when his wife died and the farm went belly up, Rube took to earning a living in anyway he could. And that way led him to become one of the most notorious and most wanted train robbers of the old west. Who was Rube Burrow? A good man pushed too far? The Robin Hood of Alabama who only stole from the rich? Or just another good ole boy lured by the trappings of easy money?   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Book & Gear Recommendations - https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7   Rube Burrow Blog by Joe Wheeler - https://jwheeler331.blogspot.com/2012/04/   Rube Burrow: King of Outlaws by George W. Agee (great resource!!!) - https://sites.rootsweb.com/~kithandkin2000/rubeburrow1.htm   Confession of Leonard Brock aka Joe Jackson - https://sites.rootsweb.com/~kithandkin2000/rubeburrow4.htm   Rube Burrow – Encyclopedia of Alabama - http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2950   Listen to PodCube!!!! - https://pod.link/podcube   Subscribe to The Wild West Extravaganza - https://www.wildwestextra.com/follow/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rube Burrow got a start as an honest man, a simple cowboy and farmer with a wife and children.

0:36.0

But when his wife died and the farm went belly

0:37.9

up, Rube took to earn in a living any way he could, and that way led him to become one of the most

0:43.1

notorious and most wanted train robbers of the Old West. Who was Rube Burrow? A good man pushed

0:49.5

too far, the Robin Hood of Alabama who only stole from the rich or just another good old boy

0:54.4

lured by the trappings of easy money stick around and find out my name's Josh and

0:59.0

you're listening to the Wild West extravaganza

1:02.4

Ruben Houston Borough Rube short, was born in Lamar County, Alabama on December 11, 1855.

1:18.2

One of ten children, Rubin enjoyed what seemed to be a relatively normal childhood for the time and place.

1:23.7

Or at least as normal a childhood as one could have when your mother is a practicing witch.

1:28.7

Yeah, a witch, as in flying brooms and caldrons and the eyes of newt.

1:33.8

At least that's what the locals thought.

1:35.8

Dame Burrow, as Reuben's mother was often called, was known as both a witch and a faith healer,

1:40.6

who was rumored to have cured all sorts of ailments, everything from warts to

1:44.6

tumors and even cancer. Rubin's father, Alan, was a farmer by trade, but also spent time as a teacher,

1:50.7

even teaching several of his own children, which is always awkward for the kids. Alan would leave

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