Description 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.
The author of Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West, she lives in Freeville, New York..
Watson Fellowship.
She has been awarded two Travel Classics awards, an American Society of Journalists and Authors award for best book, a National Endowment for the Humanities Youth Fellowship, and a coveted Thomas J. com, Outside, Men\'s Journal, American Way, Aeon, Salon, and Audubon.
About the Author Rachel Dickinson is a writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, Smithsonian.
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.
And no one was ever charged with the murders.
In the end, ten members of the Reno Gang were hanged, including three of the Reno brothers.
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.
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.
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.
Description 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
