Author: Robert William ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brigands and robbers
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Seymour, Indiana and the Famous Story of the Reno Gang
Author: Robert William ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brigands and robbers
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Six-Guns and Saddle Leather
Author: Ramon Frederick AdamsPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486400358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
The Six-Shooter State
Author: Jonathan ObertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108593631
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence - vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had been indistinguishable from private effort, by the nineteenth-century social transformations of the Civil War and the Market Revolution.
The Notorious Reno Gang
Author: Rachel DickinsonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493026402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book 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. 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.
Inventing the Pinkertons; Or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs
Author: S. Paul O'HaraPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421420562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Illustrations
Indiana
Author: History of Jackson County, Indiana
Author: Indiana Authors and Their Books: 1967-1980
Author: A Mighty Fine Road
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253052688
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
“Grant has once again hit a home run . . . a detailed but readable history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, a major Midwestern railroad.” —Carlos A. Schwantes, St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor Emeritus The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad’s history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island’s final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the “Mighty Fine Road” has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad. “This handsome, well-illustrated book merits the attention of any reader interested in the history of Iowa. And just as important, the book reminds us of the importance of railroads to the history and vitality of American society. All aboard!” —Iowa City Press-Citizen “A Mighty Fine Road lays out the amazing, yet heartbreaking history of the railroad I loved. The historical opportunities and disappointments of the Rock Island is clearly explained in Grant’s book, with visionaries keeping the dream moving forward, yet damaged and constrained by greed and lack of vision with the next management regime.” —Dan Sabin, President, Iowa Northern Railway Company
Six-guns and Saddle Leather
Author: Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1954]
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description