Check my other channel Biographics! https://www.youtube.com/channe→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The North's Air Force During the American Civil War https://youtu.be/Xs_zEqZDGP8 How Were Kamikaze Pilots Chosen? https://youtu.be/vtiAALlxOFk In this video: The story behind what came to be known as the Wham Paymaster robbery began on the morning of May 11, 1889 when a U.S. Army paymaster called Major Joseph Washington Wham was charged with transporting a lockbox containing the salaries of several hundred soldiers across the Arizona desert from Fort Grant to Fort Thomas located some 50 miles away. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/05/day-may-11th-1889-wham-paymaster-robbery-occured/ Sources: https://truewestmagazine.com/wham-bam-thank-you-uncle-sam/ http://www.azbuffalosoldiers.org/colonel-charles-young-monument-project/buffalo-soldier-medal-of-honor-recipients/ https://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-whamrobbery/ http://www.wham.org/MajWham2.html https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ftcNBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%2428,345.10+in+1886&source=bl&ots=p99Ojdzqiy&sig=1tL5pwxUtbbzWSJMDvdHgcWXJyg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-25ONmaPaAhWpIcAKHTj2BAIQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=%2428%2C345.10%20in%201886&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham_Paymaster_robbery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier http://wham.org/UptonRob.htm https://www.eacourier.com/lifestyle/did-you-know-on-the-trail-of-frankie-campbell/article_2e76eee2-0ee9-11e5-bf9e-c7a06feaa9cf.html Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holding_Up_the_Pay_Escort_Remington.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lt_Joseph_W_Wham_front.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier#/media/File:Buffalo_soldiers1.jpg https://e