The Masked Robber

William Whitney Brazelton, AKA Bill Brazen, was a known stage robber and an overall outlaw during the second half of the 1800s. Though little is known about Brazen, it is said that he originally hailed from San Francisco, and that he claimed his first victim at the early age of fifteen.

The above photo shows Brazen wearing his signature face mask, used to hide his identity from his robbery victims. The photo was taken post mortem, after Brazen was shot to death by a five-man posse led by Sheriff Charles A. Shibell in 1878.