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bedsitter23Okay, I apologize in advance, but I can't resist.
We went on a day trip in southwestern Iowa, and not every site we took in was about the good people in Iowa being robbed.
It just seemed that way.
In Adair, Jesse James committed the first ever train robbery. In expectation of a train carrying $75,000, the James Gang picked a corner the train would be turning on, and removed the spikes from the rail. The Engine did plunge over the tracks, but was not carrying as much money as thought, and the Jameses took $3000.
The track itself is there as a historical marker.
I know it is an odd bit of roadside America, but it is amazing to see for me.
This being 2013, it means the sign is currently over a salon, but like some Iowan towns, it doesn't take much imagination to figure how the town was late out in the 1930s.
It is odd of course to commemorate, but like James, Bonnie and Clyde have become American icons and it was worth going just to go.
We went on a day trip in southwestern Iowa, and not every site we took in was about the good people in Iowa being robbed.
It just seemed that way.
In Adair, Jesse James committed the first ever train robbery. In expectation of a train carrying $75,000, the James Gang picked a corner the train would be turning on, and removed the spikes from the rail. The Engine did plunge over the tracks, but was not carrying as much money as thought, and the Jameses took $3000.
The track itself is there as a historical marker.
I know it is an odd bit of roadside America, but it is amazing to see for me.
Just down the road in Stuart some 50 years later, Bonnie and Clyde robbed the bank.
It's a typical Iowa town, but the bank is memorialized for all to see.
This being 2013, it means the sign is currently over a salon, but like some Iowan towns, it doesn't take much imagination to figure how the town was late out in the 1930s.
It is odd of course to commemorate, but like James, Bonnie and Clyde have become American icons and it was worth going just to go.
