Stage Coach Robbery Site Traditional Cache
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Micro - cammo'd film cannister near a historical marker. This is
not meant to be hard cache, just to point out the historical marker
that may be passed otherwise. I had to put this cache a little
further away from the safest parking due to the proximity
restrictions to another cache. You can park near the marker and
walk to the cache, or pull over on the shoulder and get out. PLEASE
BE AWARE THAT THIS IS NEAR A BUSY ROAD. I did not allow my kids to
get out of the car at this cache.
Historical marker tells of a stagecoach robbery of a Mr.
Breckenridge of San Antonio fame near this area and the subsequent
death of his robber.
More info: Outlaw Jim
Reed, husband to Belle (Shirley) Starr. Belle Starr later
known as The Bandit Queen: Her family settled in Scyene,
Texas, near Dallas. There in July 1866 Cole, Jim, Bob, and
John Younger and Jesse James, Missouri outlaws, used her home
as a hideout. Belle Shirley's relationship with Cole Younger
is the subject of many stories, some of which claim that her
daughter Rosie Lee, often called Pearl Younger, was his child.
He denied it; the likely father was a desperado named Jim
Reed, whom Shirley had known in Missouri. She and Reed married
on November 1, 1866. Rosie Lee was born in 1868. For a while
the Reeds lived in Indian Territory at the home of outlaw Tom
Starr, a Cherokee. After Reed was charged with murder, they
went to Los Angeles, probably where their son James Edwin (Ed)
was born on February 22, 1871. They returned to Texas when
Reed's murder charges caught up with him later that year.
After their return, Reed became involved with the Younger,
James, and Starr gangs, which killed and looted throughout
Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.
Accounts differ as to Belle Reed's participation in these
activities. At least one claims that she disapproved of Reed's
actions; more suggest that she operated a livery barn in Dallas
where she sold the horses Reed stole. At one point, however, she
more than likely moved her children to live with her relatives.
There are apparently no records that Belle Reed was ever involved
in murder, the robbery of trains, banks, or stagecoaches, or in
cattle rustling. Reed robbed the Austin-San Antonio stage in April
1874, and though there is no evidence that Belle Reed participated,
she was named as an accessory in the indictment. Jim Reed was
killed by a deputy sheriff at Paris, Texas, in August 1874; the
story that Belle refused to identify his body in order to prevent
the sheriff from claiming the reward is apocryphal.
Bell famously uttered the words, "I am a friend to any brave and
gallant outlaw."
She had a very busy love life from that point on, and was killed by
a shotgun at age 40. from www.frontiertimes.com
Jim Reed and Belle Starr photos above.
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