The Notorious Reno Gang

The Notorious Reno Gang
Author: Rachel Dickinson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493026402

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The true story of the world’s first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the train station their headquarters. When the gang robbed the Adams Express car of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad on the outskirts of Seymour on October 6, 1866, it shocked the world—and made other burgeoning outlaws like Jesse James sit up and take notice. The extraordinary—and extra-legal—efforts to take them out defined the term “frontier justice.” From the first report of the robbery, Allan Pinkerton’s operatives were on the scene, followed by kidnappings, lynchings, and an extradition from Canada to Indiana that caused an international incident. In the end, ten members of the Reno Gang were hanged, including three of the Reno brothers. And no one was ever charged with the murders. The Notorious Reno Gang tells the complete story for the first time, revealing how these gangsters, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, and the little city of Seymour ushered in the Wild West.

Great-Grandma's Outlaw Cousins

Great-Grandma's Outlaw Cousins
Author: Leslie Anne Perry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Criminals
ISBN: 9781511506823

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Catalina "Lena" Reno was related to people who committed robbery and other serious crimes. The author had never heard of the Reno brothers, or of the Reno Gang (10 members of the Gang were hung by vigilantes, which included 3 of the brothers), until she learned of her great-grandmother's connection to them. And she had never heard of anybody, Renos or otherwise, being credited with "Inventing" train robberies (committed first peacetime train robbery October 6, 1866). Another thing she learned was that John Reno served time in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City for his role in the robbery of the county treasurer's safe in Gallatin, Missouri. John served 10 of the 25 years, and when released published a book "The Life of John Reno, of Seymour, Indiana, the world's first train robber". Wilkison Reno and Julia Freyhafer had 6 children (Franklin, John, Clinton, Simeon, William, Laura Amanda).

Anarchy in the Heartland

Anarchy in the Heartland
Author: A. David Distler
Publisher: A David Distler
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Bartholomew County (Ind.)
ISBN: 0970529716

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"Based in southern Indiana, Anarchy in the Hearland is the gripping true story of robbery, mayhem and mass murder in the post-Civil War era. At the time, this tragedy garnered world-wide outrage. As a result, these shameful events were ommitted from historical and political textbooks and this true story was all but forgotten ... until now! Explore this incredulous dark chapter of real American history; straight-forward and politically unfiltered."--Back cover.

The Notorious Bacon Brothers

The Notorious Bacon Brothers
Author: Jerry Langton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118404599

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A searing look at one of Canada's most dangerous gangs Gang violence is nothing new to Vancouver, but the brutality of the Bacon Brothers—Jonathan, Jarrod, and Jamie—has become legendary. The Notorious Bacon Brothers follows the chaotic rise of these three gangland figures to the pinnacle of Vancouver's lucrative drug trade. Chronicling not only the Bacon Brothers themselves, but also the gangs they infiltrated on their way to the top, and the catastrophic wave of violence they brought to the streets of Vancouver, the book explores how the bothers' adeptness at making and breaking allegiances and propensity for violence is now being replicated by gangs across Canada. With one Bacon brother dead and the other two behind bars, a power vacuum has developed for control of the drug trade in the Greater Vancouver area. The result has been full on war among the Hells Angels, Red Scorpions, UN Gang, and Independent Soldiers, as they fight to take the position once occupied by the Bacon Brothers—a lasting legacy to their place in Canada's gang history. Presents an incisive look at the violent lives of the Bacon Brothers, some of Canada's most notorious criminals Shows how the Bacon Brothers set a new precedence for gang violence that is being mimicked throughout the country Explores how the void left by the Brothers has spurred on increasing violent gang warfare on the streets of Vancouver Hard-hitting and insightful, The Notorious Bacon Brothers is a powerful look at the seedy underbelly of contemporary Canadian organized crime.

The Reno Gang of Seymour

The Reno Gang of Seymour
Author: Robert Frederick Volland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1948
Genre: Brigands and robbers
ISBN:

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Falconer on the Edge

Falconer on the Edge
Author: Rachel Dickinson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618806232

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Rachel Dickinson profiles falconer Steve Chindgren, a man willing to make extreme sacrifices to continue practicing the sport that has ruled his life. Dickinson arrives at a sense of falconry’s allure: the unpredictable nature of the hunt and the soaring exhilaration of success. Further exploration unveils the enormous emotional cost to a falconer who establishes an extraordinary tie to his birds. When, in the space of two days, Chindgren loses two birds that he’d been training for years, he is plunged into a profound depression that is only deepened when Jomo, his best bird, slows down because of old age. In addition to this challenge, Chindgren faces the danger to falconry that the modern world presents. Grouse habitat is being degraded by mining, agriculture, and gas industry interests. And the number of falconers is dwindling--the corps is graying and has few acolytes. Falconry is a sport that requires persistence, stoicism, and sacrifice; in this captivating account, Dickinson illuminates a fascinating subculture and one of its most hard core personalities.

He Rode with Butch and Sundance

He Rode with Butch and Sundance
Author: Mark T. Smokov
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1574414704

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The definitive biography of infamous western outlaw Harvey Alexander Logan, better known as Kid Curry. A violent conflict with a ranching neighbor in Montana caused him to flee to the Hole-in-the-Wall valley in Wyoming, where he became involved in rustling and eventually graduated to bank and train robbing as a member of the Wild Bunch. This outlaw group was a melding of the best of the Hole-in-the-Wall gang and Butch Cassidy's Powder Springs gang. Smokov shows that Curry was not the bloodthirsty killer that many have claimed. He contends that Curry was the actual train robbing leader of the Wild Bunch.

Reno Gang

Reno Gang
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2001
Genre: Gangs
ISBN:

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Articles about post-Civil War criminals the Reno Brothers or the Reno Gang from Seymour, Ind.

Thirty Years a Detective

Thirty Years a Detective
Author: Allan Pinkerton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 666
Release: 1900
Genre: Crime
ISBN:

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