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Spencer Nottingham                                          11/25/99Language humanities                                              Per 8surface-to-air missile Bass                    Two Column notesLocation Guardians                     biographical Information      Sam Bass was born in the township of Mitchell inch on July 21, 1851.     Later Bass Moved to the state of Texas where he took up the business of domesticate robbing   &nbs p Sams parents died when he was a youth, his mom Jane, in 1861, dadaism Daniel, in 1864.     Sam and his Twelve siblings moved in with relatives. Poor Sam was sent to his uncle David L Seeks whom deprived Sam of a proper raising and made him work on the farm when he was old enough.      go working as a teamster at the age of xviii he drove a herd of cattle to Denton Texas and stayed working for the topical anaesthetic Sheriff, WF "dad" Eagan.      When Sam saved up enough capital he bought a prize winning horse that won him enough gold to quit working for Eagan.     With the money he had Sam started mixing with the "rowdies".      hotshot day Sam And Underwood, one of the "rowdies" bought melons from the local store, and in an attempt to opus his Bass dropped the melon causing two blacks to turn around and glance at the men. Bass and Underwood start ed throwing stones at them and were chased out of town by the sheriff and from then on Bass was known as an outlaw.     As an outlaw Bass formed a caboodle made of quaternary men Tom Nixon, Bill Heffridge, and Jim Berry. The Gang would rob stagecoaches but when the money got low they concentrated      on trains     The Bass gangs basic big train strike was on a Union pacific carrying money from well Fargo going west. The gang boarded the train at a water terminate in Big Springs Neb. On Sep. 19, 1877, taking more than $60,000 in new minted twenty- dollar gold pieces, an additional $1,300 from passengers, and $450 from the mail car. Following the robbery Basses prime(prenominal) gang split up and most of the gang was captured bu lawmen save Bass.     When the first Bass gang split Bass composed an new gang of Frank Jackson, Tom Spotswood, Henry Underwood, Tom Johnson, and the Traitor Jim Murphy who would later on betray Bass and set Bass up for his, Jim Murhys own advantage. They started on stagecoaches too but when the take was only $43 dollars they swore to concentrate on trains.     There were many robberies before the one that would turn the gang upside-down.