The Legend They Remembered, the Woman They Never Knew

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The Last Ride: Outlaw Laura Bullion and the Wild Bunch

Most Americans had no idea who Freda Lincoln was, but they certainly knew the name Laura Bullion.

While Laura quietly built a new life far from the headlines, the legend of the Wild Bunch outlaw took on a life of its own. Throughout the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, newspapers repeatedly resurrected her story whenever they revisited the exploits of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. With each retelling, Laura became less a historical figure and more a larger-than-life Western legend.

By 1950, The Sunday Oregonian proclaimed her the “first woman to take part in a train robbery,” weaving a vivid account of Laura waiting on horseback as the Wild Bunch dynamited a Great Northern Railroad express car and vanished into the Montana hills with thousands of dollars in cash.

The stories only grew more sensational. By the early 1950s, Hollywood was developing a motion picture about her life, with Academy Award-nominated actress Marjorie Main attached to play the infamous outlaw. Studio publicity even claimed Laura had single-handedly held up a mail train, proving that the legend had grown well beyond the historical record.

Who was the real Laura Bullion? The answer is even more compelling than the myths.

The Last Ride: Outlaw Laura Bullion and the Wild Bunch separates fact from fiction through newspapers, court records, Pinkerton files, prison correspondence, and previously overlooked archival research.

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