Eagle Ford Train Robbery (1878)

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Eagle Ford Train Robbery (1878)

Lost Treasure TX • Dallas County County
Description
April 4, 1878 Texas & Pacific train robbery at Eagle Ford in West Dallas by Sam Bass — six days before the famous Mesquite holdup and part of the gang's final Texas spree.
Historical Notes
Eagle Ford was a historic freedmen's community and railroad stop in western Dallas County, west of the Trinity River. On April 4, 1878, Sam Bass robbed a Texas & Pacific train there — the first of two T&P jobs in Dallas County that month. The Eagle Ford school (1894) and cemetery preserve the community's history amid modern industrial West Dallas. Outlaw lore links the robbery to caches in the Eagle Ford hills and river bottoms. None of Bass's Dallas-area train jobs matched his 1877 Big Springs, Nebraska haul of $60,000 in gold double-eagles. Treasure tales persist that he hid portions of all his takes before the Round Rock shootout.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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