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Pleasant Valley Coal Company

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Near this site stood the Pleasant Valley Coal Company office and store. On April 21, 1897, in one of the most daring daylight robberies, Butch Cassidy, Elsa Lay, and Bob Meeks robbed paymaster E.L. Carpenter and made off with over $8000.00 in gold and silver, of which only approximately $1000.00 was ever recovered.
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