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The Legend of the Gentleman and the Outlaw, by Lucius Spriggs (La Leyenda del Hidalgo y El Bandido, translated by Jim Jimenez) by veeagainst
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
01 May 2023
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Summary
Stede Bonnet arrived by train to Aspen, Colorado in 1893. He came with more money than sense, dressed in a flamboyant outfit more suited to a London nightclub than a rough and tumble mining town in Colorado.
Shortly after Bonnet’s arrival, he met Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach. Blackbeard, had made millions during the 1880s and ‘90s through a combination of the silver veins of his Blackbeard Mine and a penchant for claim jumping, train robbery, and shootouts at saloons throughout the west.
The two became fast friends and ill-fated criminal partners. When the silver market collapsed following President Cleveland’s repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, Aspen’s mines closed and thousands of miners lost their jobs. To save the town, Bonnet and Blackbeard planned a daring heist of the Aspen to Glenwood Springs train that would have seen them making off with nearly $100,000 - if they’d been able to pull it off! Instead, Blackbeard’s right hand man Izzy Hands saved the train and saw these lawless men sent to justice in Denver.
Three years later, they both returned to Aspen to rob the same train - and this time plummeted to their deaths with a dynamiting gone wrong! How did it come to this? Read on!