The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves Assassins and Train Robbers
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The true story of the worlds 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 worldand made other burgeoning outlaws like Jesse James sit up and take notice. The extraordinaryand extra-legalefforts to take them out defined the term frontier justice. From the first report of the robbery Allan Pinkertons 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 Pinkertons National Detective Agency and the little city of Seymour ushered in the Wild West.
