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Horse-drawn coaches were the common method for travel in the early days of Yellowstone National Park. (Yellowstone Digital Slide File - click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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By M. Mark Miller<\/h3>\n

Before completion of the Nothern Pacific\u2019s transcontinental railroad in 1883, many early Yellowstone visitors often came long distances by stagecoach\u2014and that wasn\u2019t always safe. In 1872 a young Englishman named Sidford Hamp, who had spent the summer working on the second Hayden expedition documenting Yellowstone Park, told about a stagecoach robbery in a letter to his mother.<\/p>\n

About 8 o\u2019clock that evening on October 16, I was asleep when suddenly the coach stopped, which woke me up. I was going to look out (for the blinds were down) when I heard some one outside say, “Put in your head there! Put in your head!”<\/p>\n

In a little while the voice said again, \u201cget out one at a time and throw up your hands.\u201d I knew in an instant that the coach was stopped by highwaymen. One of the passengers got out\u2014and then I did\u2014and all the others followed and stood in a row with their hands over their heads.<\/p>\n

There were seven of us besides one on the box with the driver and a lady and child inside. When we were outside, I had time to look about and the first thing I saw was a man with a double-barreled shotgun\u2014full cocked pointed at the driver. Another man behind the coach had two six-barreled pistols in his hand.<\/p>\n

I took the end nearest the shotgun man, so that I could see what he was up to.\u00a0 When we were all out the man with the pistols told the coachman to throw out the treasure boxes, which he did. He then took a small hatchet he had with him and split them open but there was nothing in them.<\/p>\n

Then he came to us and searched us. He began with me, he first took out my watch, but he only looked at it and put it back, and said he didn\u2019t want it. Then be felt in my other pockets and found a leather case in which I had $8 and all my letters. I told him there was only $8 in it and he said if he thought so he would give it back.\u00a0 I asked him to look inside but he wouldn\u2019t. He asked me what I had been doing as I only had $8 so I told him I was traveling with another fellow. I had 2 pound 5 shilling notes in watch pocket, which he didn\u2019t find.<\/p>\n

Then he searched the others and got from the first, $300, the second $2400, third $4000, fourth $150, fifth $0. From the man on the box they got $150. The man who lost none had handed his purse to the lady as he got out\u2014and as she wasn\u2019t searched, he saved it.<\/p>\n

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They then took the candle out of the coach lamp and searched inside the coach. The man on the box had a bottle of whiskey, which the robbers took from him and handed round for the passengers to drink. I took some just for the joke of it and because I was cold with standing out with my hands up. Fancy such a thing as a highway robbers in England.<\/p>\n

Read more tales of early travel in Yellowstone like this excerpt from \u00a0Sidford Hamp\u2019s Diary, published in\u00a0Annals of Wyoming<\/em>, in M. Mark\u00a0Miller’s\u00a0Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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