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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.

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Arthur Flavell has worked in a variety of occupational fields, ranging from construction to broadcast radio and television to aviation-both as a pilot and an airfield electronics maintainer. Underlying these seemingly disparate endeavors is a keen regard for language. It reveals itself in a fascination with stories and storytelling; a constant search for new and strange words and worlds. This love was engendered at an early age through reading and listening to storytellers ply their craft. The ongoing exposure to new facets of language and the vistas this opens in the mind is perhaps the greatest reward of all. Quite simply, words are magic. Arthur hopes that you enjoy some of his. Rachel Dickinson is a writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Atlantic, Smithsonian.com, Outside, Men's Journal, American Way, Aeon, Salon, and Audubon. 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. Watson Fellowship. The author of Falconer on the Edge and The Notorious Reno Gang, she lives in Freeville, New York.

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