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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. (15[1])In a 1969 film, Woodcock is injured after attempting to thwart these events (15[1])from being caused by the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, who are led by two people that run to (*) Bolivia (-5[1])after their involvement (-5[1])in these events. Justus (-5[1])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” one of these (10[1])events. They don’t involve (10[1]-5[1])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■ (10[4])

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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