Sam Bass Train Robbery
Sam Bass -- with Seab Barnes, Hank Underwood, "Arkansas" Johnson, and Frank Jackson -- held up a Texas & Pacific train here, April 10, 1878. They took $152, but missed hidden shipment of $30,000. In planning a bank robbery 3 months later, Bass was fatally shot by rangers.
32.7668° N, 96.6010° W
Where to Find It
in Heritage Plaza, 200 block of W. Main near flag pole
Nearby Markers
- <0.1 mi E City of Mesquite Mesquite
- <0.1 mi W Holley-McWhorter-Greenhaw Family Mesquite
- 0.2 mi NE First Methodist Church of Mesquite Mesquite
- 0.3 mi SE Public Education in Mesquite Mesquite
- 0.3 mi SW Mesquite Cemetery Mesquite
- 0.5 mi E CCC Company 850 Mesquite