The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage is a 1904 American short silent Western film directed by Harry Buckwalter.

[1][2] During production a group of tourists traveling through the region saw the filming and, mistaking it for an actual robbery, began to fire on the crew.

Nobody was injured in the exchange, but the incident prompted an investigation by the postal inspector, who questioned Buckwalter about his use of authentic mail bags as props.

[3][4] The film begins at the Bruin Inn, in North Cheyenne Canon, Colorado Springs, as the stage coach is departing for a relay station where the mail bags are transferred.

A group of bandits plot to capture the stage after hearing that it is transporting a Wells Fargo strong box containing a million dollars in gold from Horace Tabor's bank in Leadville to the Clark–Gruber mint in Denver.