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Link Jones is left stranded with Sam and Billie after one of these events almost occurs in Man of the West. General Mapache offers $10,000 in gold to a group led by Pike Bishop for participating in one of these events in The Wild Bunch. In a 1969 film, Woodcock is injured after attempting to thwart these events from being caused by the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, who are led by two people that run to (*) Bolivia directly after their involvement in these specific events. Justus D. Barnes plays a character that shoots at the camera in the final shot of a 1903 Edwin S. Porter film named for a “Great” (10[1])one of these events. They don’t involve banks, but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid run from the law for their involvement in, for 10 points, what crimes popular in Westerns involving locomotives? ■END■

ANSWER: train robberies [accept any answer indicating trains getting robbed or trains getting held up; accept The Great Train Robbery; prompt on robbery alone or equivalents like thefts; reject “bank robberies”]
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TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2024 HONK! @ Waterloo2024-08-03N8100%25%50%110.38
2024 HONK! @ Carleton2024-10-20Y4100%25%75%110.50
2024 HONK! @ Syracuse2024-12-07Y1100%0%0%108.00
2025 HONK! @ Online2025-03-09N10100%30%50%100.20