In the spring of 1881, a group of American outlaws ambushed a Mexican cattle drive or smuggler train that entered the Skeleton Canyon, Peloncillo Mountains, Arizona. What they had taken from the Mexicans besides cattle, was money...to the sum of a few thousand dollars...a lot of money to a bunch of thieves in those days, but certainly not the millions of dollars that the stories had mentioned. In short, the robbery of Monterrey, Mexico had never taken place.

If any of you are wondering how I know this, I would like you to think about something. If you had your house robbed, who do you call? If you had your bank robbed, who do you call? And wouldn't who you call keep records of what happened? Supposedly, Monterrey was robbed of a king's ransom, and it stand's to think that someone would keep records of the incident. Not once, had the newspapers, the colleges, the banks, the police, the cathedrals up and down Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Colorado, or even the U.S. State Department (if the robbers had crossed the border, Mexico would have lodged formal complaints), said that this robbery had even occured. The robbery was fiction. And for a lot of people involved in searching for it, myself included, it was a tough thing to swallow.

• Re: Sorry to hear it, Brian. Jack (NM) 17:50:14 5/25/98 (0)