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America's First Great Bank Robber: George Leonidas Leslie

· 59 min

Episode America's First Great Bank Robber: George Leonidas Leslie

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When people speak of the first American bank robber, typically, they think of Jesse James. While he may have been the first world famous bandit and bank robber, he was not the most prolific. That was a man named George Leonidas Leslie, the first truly great American bank robber. He was an underground figure, an outlaw folk hero who made his living robbing the original robber barons.

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