Dell Hinckley Robison
submitted by: Teegan Freeman
This story is about my great great grandfather, Dell Hinckley Robison, who was born on September 5, 1905. My great great grandfather was moving in the fall of 1916 with his family from Moapa Valley, Nevada to Jarbridge, Nevada. It was my great great great grandmother and my great great grandfather and his two sisters. They started out in a wagon and after Salt Lake City they got on a train and were going to Rogerson. When they left Rogerson they took a Hudson touring car to a roadhouse called Rattlesnake. Rattlesnake was a saloon with a few rooms upstairs. Rattlesnake was not too far from Jarbridge Nevada but they were lucky to get a room to stay in while it was snowing outside. They were supposed to go meet with a stage coach to finish their trip to Jarbridge but they missed him because they got there late because of all of the snow that they were surrounded by. They were lucky they were not with that stage coach because he was delivering lots and lots of money to Jarbridge Nevada for the miners pay checks and there was a robber hiding in the willow trees and when the covered wagon went by he snuck out and he got on the back of the wagon and he shot the driver and killed him and took all the money for the miners paychecks. The cops found him and took him to jail but the money was never found to this day and was buried somewhere near Jarbridge. He stole 4,000 dollars which back then was a lot of money. It was called the Jarbridge stage robbery and was the last stagecoach robbery in the wild west. The murderer was the first to be found guilty by palm print evidence in American history. My great great grandfather had always said “I have always wondered if mother and I and the two younger sisters had been on the stage what he would have done.” I think the robber would have killed them all and I would not be here today. I am glad that they missed that stage coach.
