Interestingly, in many of the counties seizing the cash, the reason the original sheriff was brought in to begin with was to help deal with highway robbery at the time.

Sometimes the federal government would be the one taking pride in their ability to provide some protection against highway robbery during cash movements, or at least to administer justice thereafter, before these territories even became states.

If any "lawman" would have ever stooped low enough to rob Wells Fargo, there would have been a hanging without question.