This Week in Texas History
On Aug. 23, 1892, a Gainesville newspaper confirmed the rumored death of a local politician turned train robber.Eugene Franklin Bunch did not fit the stereotype of the late nineteenth century outlaw. He was not an illiterate saddle tramp nor a trigger-happy sociopath but the well-educated son of a Mississippi planter. So why did he chose a life of crime at the age of 43?Soon after...