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  title info:
    title: Skullduggery, secrets, and murders
    sub title: the 1894 Wells Fargo scam that backfired
  name:
    name part: Neal, Bill
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bakken, Gordon Morris
    role:
      role term: author of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed foolproof was hatched up. The plan was for George to present money packets falsely purporting to contain $25,000 in cash to the Wells Fargo office in Kansas City. Wells Fargo was to ship the packets via the Santa Fe railroad to George at Canadian, Texas, where George's cronies would then rob the depot office and steal the phony money packets, thus allowing George Isaacs to sue Wells Fargo for his lost fortune. The plan backfired when the sheriff was on hand when the train arrived. The bandits killed the sheriff but then panicked and raced back to the Territory without grabbing the bogus packets. Wells Fargo sent an undercover agent to investigate, but the outlaws discovered him, and the agent was assassinated. The two murders led to eight trials, but only one man, George Isaacs, was ever convicted, and even he managed to beat a life sentence. One question lingered. Was George truly behind the scam? The identities of the masterminds behind the foiled plot have remained a mystery for more than a hundred years. With his usual rough-and-tumble tenacity, Bill Neal undertakes the investigation of these two cold-case murders.
  note: Bill Neal ; foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ok
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Legal History
  subject:
    topic: TRUE CRIME / General
  subject:
    topic: Swindlers and swindling
    geographic: Oklahoma
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Trials (Murder)
    geographic: Oklahoma
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Murder
    geographic: Oklahoma
    topic: History
  classification: HV6698.O5 N43 2015
  classification: 364.152/3092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: American liberty & justice
  identifier: 9780896729179
  identifier: 0896729176
  identifier: 9780896729186
  identifier: 2014044544
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141215
    record change date: 20151105212054.0
    record identifier: in00003537421