There is one thing wrong with this scenario: it almost never happened. The townspeople may mount a posse, but this belated action proves ineffective, as the crooks gleefully reach their hideout, the next town, or Mexico, whichever comes first. In a cloud of dust, they scramble out of town, with an occasional gunshot from one of the befuddled sheriffs trailing behind. Then they move with lightning speed to draw their guns, force the cashier or president to open the safe, throw the money in saddlebags, and hightail it for their horses outside. The riders tie up their horses and enter the bank in broad daylight. In a typical Hollywood scene, several riders, clad (in recent movies) in long coats-despite summertime frontier temperatures of up to 125 degrees!-slowly enter town, conspicuously scanning the cityscape for lawmen. One of the enduring images of movies and television about the frontier west in America is the bank robbery.
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