SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Mother-daughter duo made history as South Dakota’s first female bank robbers

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South Dakota’s first female bank robbers. Mother, Catherine Rogers, left, and daughter Zera Rogers, right. (Courtesy of Argus Leader)

South Dakota’s first female bank robbers had been found guilty of holding up the First State Bank of Renner a century ago.

And according to the Jan. 29, 1926, edition of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, the mother-daughter duo faced up to 20 years in the state penitentiary for their crimes.

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