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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.
A number of Old West gangs left a lasting impression on American ... Oklahoma, and Texas. ... Red Jack Gang (c. 1880–1883) Reno Gang (1866–1868) Rogers Brothers ...
San Antonio, Texas: 18 May, 1887 Bill Whitley Gang The gang robbed a Missouri-Pacific train and stole $4,000. [18] Benbrook, Texas: 9 June, 1887 Rube Burrow and his gang Rube Burrow and his gang boarded a Texas & Pacific Express and held the train engineer at gunpoint and stole $1,350.00 from the mail car. [19] near Fort Worth, Texas: 20 ...
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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 ...
Two people were hospitalized Tuesday night after a shooting in northwest Fort Worth that investigators believe may have been gang related. Officers were first called to the 4900 block of Marineway ...
Hell's Half Acre was a precinct of Fort Worth, Texas designated as a red-light district beginning in the early to mid 1870s in the Old Wild West. [1] It came to be called the town's "Bloody Third ward " because of the violence and lawlessness in the area.