July 3 -- On this day in Montana history in 1901 Kid
Curry, whose real name was Harvey Logan and was one of the Hole in the Wall
Gang, held up the Great Northern train near Malta. As in the famous movie “Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Logan had trouble blowing up the safe, and had
to increase the dynamite he used in three different tries before blowing the
money car up. But he got away with more than $100,000 -- a lot of money in
those days.
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