The Billy Miner Letterbox LbNA #14507
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Add Location| Owner: | Aardvark  |
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| Plant date: | Apr 3, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Del Norte |
| County: | Rio Grande |
| State: | Colorado |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Desert Flower |
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| Last found: | May 31, 2015 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFaFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 3, 2005 |
*** Nov 29 2010 - Adopted by Aardvark and back in business!
*** Apr 3 2005 - Originally placed by Jacobi, archived a few years later.
The Billy Miner Letterbox
Billy Miner made a career out of stealing from stagecoaches in the Wild West. He held up coaches in Colorado, California and Washington and became famous for the first train robbery in Canada. While robbing the train he and accomplices unhooked the passenger cars. When he went into the safe car to find the loot he realized that it was only the mail car he was robbing. They had unhooked the wrong car! Later when they were caught they were sent to prison for a hold-up that had netted them only fifteen dollars. By the end of Billy’s life he had spent 36 of his 71 years in prison, escaping five times.
Billy wasn’t much of a gunman, he never killed anybody, and he was said to be very polite and soft-spoken when he was robbing folks. He did have to shoot a Sheriff in the arm to escape when he was caught in Creede, after a hold-up 5 miles east of Del Norte.
The letterbox dedicated to Billy Miner is roughly on the spot where he, Floyd Thursby, and Bill Leroy robbed the Alamosa Stage on February 4 of 1881. From Del Norte go east on highway 160 about 5 miles, or from Monte Vista go west on highway 160 about 8 miles. Just east of the intersection with Rifle Range Road there are guardrails on both sides of the highway. Park on the east end of the guardrails and go to the north side of the road. From the end of the guardrail you will see a small pinion tree twenty steps away at 350 degrees. There is also a survey marker by this tree. Look on the west side of the tree under some volcanic rocks to find this tribute to notorious outlaw Billy Miner.
*** Apr 3 2005 - Originally placed by Jacobi, archived a few years later.
The Billy Miner Letterbox
Billy Miner made a career out of stealing from stagecoaches in the Wild West. He held up coaches in Colorado, California and Washington and became famous for the first train robbery in Canada. While robbing the train he and accomplices unhooked the passenger cars. When he went into the safe car to find the loot he realized that it was only the mail car he was robbing. They had unhooked the wrong car! Later when they were caught they were sent to prison for a hold-up that had netted them only fifteen dollars. By the end of Billy’s life he had spent 36 of his 71 years in prison, escaping five times.
Billy wasn’t much of a gunman, he never killed anybody, and he was said to be very polite and soft-spoken when he was robbing folks. He did have to shoot a Sheriff in the arm to escape when he was caught in Creede, after a hold-up 5 miles east of Del Norte.
The letterbox dedicated to Billy Miner is roughly on the spot where he, Floyd Thursby, and Bill Leroy robbed the Alamosa Stage on February 4 of 1881. From Del Norte go east on highway 160 about 5 miles, or from Monte Vista go west on highway 160 about 8 miles. Just east of the intersection with Rifle Range Road there are guardrails on both sides of the highway. Park on the east end of the guardrails and go to the north side of the road. From the end of the guardrail you will see a small pinion tree twenty steps away at 350 degrees. There is also a survey marker by this tree. Look on the west side of the tree under some volcanic rocks to find this tribute to notorious outlaw Billy Miner.