The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train Robbers

by Rachel Dickinson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493035118
• ISBN13: 9781493035113
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.7"