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The Reno Gang, also known as the Reno Brothers Gang and The Jackson Thieves, were a group of criminals that operated in the Midwestern United States during and just after the American Civil War. Though short-lived, the gang carried out the first three peacetime train robberies in U.S. history. Most of the stolen money was never recovered.
Red Jack Gang (c. 1880–1883) Reno Gang (1866–1868) Rogers Brothers Gang (1890s) Reynolds Gang (1863–1864) Rufus Buck Gang (1895–1896) Selman's Scouts (1878)
Rage at Dawn is a 1955 American Technicolor Western film directed by Tim Whelan, and starring Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, and J. Carrol Naish.It purports to tell the true story of the Reno Brothers, an outlaw gang which terrorized the American Midwest, particularly Southern Indiana, in the period immediately following the American Civil War.
The most famous Indiana whitecap incident was the lynching of the Reno Gang in 1868. Sixty-five whitecaps sacked New Albany’s jail on Dec. 11 and hung the marauders from a stairwell.
The gang entered and robbed a small general store, they then stopped and boarded a train at 4:45 PM and stole $12,000 (equivalent to $290,000 in 2023) from rich men (they avoided robbing working-class men and women.) [9] [10] [11] Big Springs, Nebraska: 18 September, 1877 Sam Bass, Joel Collins, Jack Davis, Tom Nixon, Bill Heffridge, and Jim Berry
Frank Reno, one of the first lynching victims in Indiana. In the years following the American Civil War, southern Indiana experienced several high-profile criminal events. The Reno Gang began to terrorize the region in the immediate years after the war, becoming the first gang in the nation to begin robbing trains. They sacked rural towns ...
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Many modern researchers, such as Joe and Chesney-Lind, found that early work on female gang members typically describes them as promiscuous, sexually loose young women. [8] However, when female gang members were interviewed by Campbell about their sexual activity, having multiple partners was viewed in a highly negative fashion, [11] and Valdez ...