A second Robin Hood was the romantic Sam Bass to the cowboys of Texas--but quite another matter was he to the railroad companies and the peace officers for whom he and his gang made life miserable. The trace wound through the rolling wooded prairies of “the Nation,” where clearings were carpeted with rustling dead leaves and dry grass. The light spring wagon bounced over ruts, though the team was wearied by a long day in harness and the wagon’s pace was slow. The driver was a cowboy--just a lean brown cowboy with nothing to set him apart particularly from any of a thousand others in this year of ’77, when Texas trail herds were moving north and ever north in the great hegira that was to sto…
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