BLOOD MONEY

Scott details the robbery of Bozeman's Security Bank and Trust Company on July 22, 1932--and the role played by Seth Bohart--that presents an interesting case study, especially when the bounty offered by the Montana Bankers Association for killing bank robbers is factored into it. The Bozeman b...

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Published in:Montana : the magazine of western history 2013-10, Vol.63 (3), p.3
Main Author: Scott, Kim Allen
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
American history
Bank robberies
Bankers associations
Bohart, Seth
Hunter, Andrew
Rushton, Paul
Shootings
Witnesses
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Summary:Scott details the robbery of Bozeman's Security Bank and Trust Company on July 22, 1932--and the role played by Seth Bohart--that presents an interesting case study, especially when the bounty offered by the Montana Bankers Association for killing bank robbers is factored into it. The Bozeman bank robbery has been told several times over in the past eighty years with varying elements of legend and fact. The problem with these accounts is the sources on which they are based, none of which has ever been subjected to any substantive degree of scrutiny. The only primary sources for the bank robbery are sixteen contemporary local newspaper accounts and an eyewitness narrative by Bohart, the man who shot Andrew Hunter, one of the robbers.
ISSN:0026-9891
2328-4293