Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Pacific train last week chugged swiftly over the rails in the State of Nayarit, Mexico, belching steam and smoke into the night air and spewing fine cinders over the countryside. Sleeping soundly in comfortable Pullmans were eleven U. S. citizens on their way back...
...rode a large group of skulking bandits with an eye to robbery and a will to violence. Madly they raced along with the swaying train, their horses' hoofs beating a drum rumble on the arid land. Half a hundred shots screamed through the air and clattered against the sides of the cars, some of them piercing the woodwork and windows. But all in vain; booty was denied them...
...Mazatlan, the first stopping place, she was removed from the train to a hospital and operated upon...
Said Miss Rider: "We were all sleeping when the firing began. It sounded like a Fourth of July celebration. We were warned by the Pullman conductor that the train was being attacked and to be careful...
...Among them: The Donovan Affair, The Ghost Train, Set a Thief, The Spider, Number Seven, Wooden Kimono, Mystery Ship, The House of Shadows...