In this riveting true-crime biography, New York Times bestselling author Chris Enss brings to life one of the most elusive figures of the American West, Laura Bullion, the Wild Bunch’s only known female train robber.
She rode alongside outlaws through dust-choked hideouts and high-stakes robberies, her name appearing in Pinkerton files and newspaper headlines beside men whose legends would only grow with time. Then, quite deliberately, she vanished.
Drawing on rare prison letters, intercepted correspondence, and scattered archival fragments long hidden or obscured, Enss reconstructs the life of a woman who refused to be defined by the violence around her. From these pieces emerges the portrait of someone who moved between extremes, outlaw and wife, fugitive and respected citizen, without ever fully revealing herself.
Beginning with the moment her past nearly surfaced decades later, The Last Ride traces Laura Bullion’s transformation from hunted criminal to a woman who disappeared into ordinary life.
Until now, her story has remained in shadows.
