Joe Boot
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Joe Boot was an outlaw from Arizona. A farmer by profession, he lived in Globe, east of Phoenix.
Boot had been planning a train robbery for a very long time before he actually went ahead with his plans, on May 31, 1899. Six years before the robbery, Joe Boot met Pearl Hart, whom he befriended.
Hungry to secure their future but lacking in train robbery experience, it took Boot and Hart those six years to exact a plan.
In one of the less productive train heists in old west history, Boot and Hart managed to take only about 400 dollars and a revolver from three train passengers. They escaped, but five days later, they were found in Benson, Arizona.
Boot subsequently spent thirty years in jail.
