Download or read book Mr Yowder and the Train Robbers written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates how Mr. Yowder outwits a gang of bank robbers with the help of some friendly rattlesnakes.

Download or read book Mr Plod and Little Noddy written by Enid Blyton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1961 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published Sampson Lowe, 1961

Download or read book The Last Train Robber written by W.C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924. For decades, the railroads were the principal transporters of payrolls, gold and silver, bonds, and passengers who often carried large sums of money as well as valuable jewelry. For the creative outlaw, trains became an obvious target for robbery. Willis Newton has never enjoyed the recognition and fame of the better known train robbing outlaws such as Frank and Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, the Daltons, and the Doolins, but he was the most prolific and successful train robber in the history of North America. Newton stole more money from the railroads than all of the others put together. During his lifetime, Newton robbed six trains and an estimated eighty banks, pulled off the greatest train robbery ever, netting $3,000,000, yet remains virtually unknown. So unknown was he that, despite all of his success as a robber, he was rarely identified as a suspect. Following his greatest heist, Newton and his gang member, composed of his brothers, were arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to serve long terms at Leavenworth Prison. When they were granted early release for good behavior, they lost no time in returning to robbing banks. Willis Newton’s life and times as America’s greatest, and last, train robber has been gleaned and developed from extensive interviews he granted during the 1970s when he was in his eighties. In addition, newspaper reports of his numerous train and bank robberies have been obtained and researched for precise details of robberies and pursuit.

Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…

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Download or read book CANNONBALL EXPRESS 3 Train Robbers of Mars written by Kit Kane and published by Seven Monsters Media Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wow! It’s BUFFY meets FIREFLY on Mars with trains!” Barry J. Hutchison, bestselling author of SPACE TEAM The Cannonball Express. On the wild-west railroads of Mars, no other locomotive can touch her. As far as engineer-owner Jess Flint is concerned, friends and family are the only things she loves more. So when somebody goes and steals Jess’s steam-powered pride and joy, pity the robbers. Because now it’s up to Jess and her best friend Sally to saddle up, follow those departing rail wagons, and teach some blackhats a goddamn lesson in civility. Well... that was the plan. What wasn't the plan was infiltrating mysterious underground bunkers, escaping deadly flesh-stripping acid baths, and becoming a two-gal snack for Mars’s biggest and hungriest critter. All while neglecting to wear anything other than their pajamas. Oh, and let’s not forget the impending nuclear catastrophe our two unlucky heroines inadvertently trigger, set to vaporize thousands of innocent Martian colonists in a single blast… ——————— FANS OF THE FOLLOWING SERIES ALSO ENJOY CANNONBALL EXPRESS: Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly TV Series, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Lost in Space, Mandalorian, Buffy, Dr Who, Bobba Fett, Obi Wan Kenobi, Wild Wild West, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Brisco County, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Agent Carter, Avengers, Babylon 5, Babylon Five, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman, Six Million Dollar Man, Blake's 7, Blake's Seven, Blue Thunder, Back to the Future, Gerry Anderson, Captain Scarlet, Captain Harlock, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Joss Whedon, Dan Dare, Earth Final Conflict, Farscape, Fireball XL5, Godzilla, Gundam, Joe 90, Thunderbirds, Jonny Quest, Knight Rider, Land of the Lost, Land of the Giants, Macross, Mazinger, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Power Rangers, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf, RoboCop, SeaQuest, Space 1999, Space Patrol, Space Precinct, Stargate, Stingray, Terra Nova, Terrahawks, Time Tunnel, Tomorrow People, Transformers, Ultraman, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Irwin Allen, War of the Worlds, Warehouse 13, Wonder Woman, Backyard Starship, Starship for Sale, Alexis Carew, Junkyard Pirate, Doc Savage FANS OF THE FOLLOWING WRITERS ALSO ENJOY CANNONBALL EXPRESS: M.R. Forbes, MR Forbes, M R Forbes, Scott Baron, G.J. Ogden, GJ Ogden, G J Ogden, Mark Wayne McGinnis, James David Victor, L.L. Richman, LL Richman, L L Richman, Matt Rogers, Lindsay Buroker, Clara Woods, J.N. Chaney, JN Chaney, J N Chaney, Dominique Mondesir, Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle, H.G. Wells, HG Wells, H G Wells, E.E. Doc Smith, EE Doc Smith, E E Doc Smith, Barry J Hutchison, Barry J. Hutchison, Edgar Rice Burrows, Terry Maggert, Greig Beck, Jason Anspach, Jamie McFarlane, Daniel Arenson, Becky Chambers, Rick Partlow, Igor Nikolic, Joshua Dalzelle, Orson Scott Card, Jasper T. Scott, Jasper T Scott, Nathan Hystad, Ben S. Dobson, Ben S Dobson, James Haddock THE FOLLOWING KEYWORDS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH CANNONBALL EXPRESS: science fiction fantasy books, sci-fi adventure novels, sci-fi and fantasy books, sci-fi teen books, sci-fi fantasy books, sci-fi fantasy novels, sci fi adventure novels, pulp sci-fi adventure, sci-fi western books, western sci-fi books, space western books, science fiction action books, science fiction western books, sci fi adventure books, sci fi book sets, science fiction and fantasy books, sci fi western books, western sci fi books, sci-fi adventure books, sci-fi novels, sci-fi books, science fiction novels, science fiction adventure books, western science fiction books, sci-fi action books, sci fi space western book novel series female hero, sci fi space western book novel series mars trains, steampunk sci fi western novels, sci fi female protagonist, sci fi western with girl hero, best scifi steampunk genre book novel series story, scifi book novel about mars trains cowboys aliens, scifi female protagonist hero main lead character, scifi space western book novel series like firefly

Download or read book SuperTed and the Train Robbers written by Mike Young and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SuperTed, the teddy bear with magic powers, thwarts an attempt to steal a trainload of chocolate.

Download or read book Train Robber s Daughter written by Jay O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evans and Sontag were among the most notorious outlaws of the American West. Here for the first time is the true story of Eva Evans, the teenage daughter of Chris Evans, whose life was just as dramatic as that of her train robbing father. From her first-hand accounts of the manhunt for her father; her romance with his bandit partner, John Sontag; her career on the stage, portraying herself in a popular blood and thunder melodrama; and her surprising admission, at the end of her life, of her father's guilt, O'Connell tells a story that not only entertains, but is a valuable contribution to California history.--From publisher description.

Download or read book Great Train Robberies of the Old West written by R. Michael Wilson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train robbery a capital crime. A few of the hundreds of train robberies stand out as thrilling and dangerous affairs, and the greatest of these (15-20) are included in this book.

Download or read book The Notorious Reno Gang written by Rachel Dickinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Wells Fargo Co Stagecoach and Train Robberies 1870 1884 written by James B. Hume and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1, 1885, Wells, Fargo & Company's chief detective James B. Hume and special agent John N. Thacker published a report summarizing the company's losses during the previous 14 years. It listed 313 stagecoach robberies, 23 burglaries, and four train robberies but included little or no details of the events themselves, focusing instead on physical descriptions of the robbers. Widely circulated, the report was intended to assist law enforcement in identifying and apprehending the criminals believed still to present a danger to the company. The present volume revisits each crime, updating Hume and Thacker's original report with rich new details culled from local newspapers, personal diary entries, and court records.

Download or read book Baby s First Train Robbery written by Jim Whalley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank's long-suffering parents decide it's time for a holiday – looking after a whole zooful of animals is VERY hard work. Leaving Gran in charge, they set off. But the further from home they get, the more anxious Frank gets. What if Gran can't cope? What if his animals need him? He decides to take drastic action – with dire consequences! A nail-biting follow-up to the bestselling Baby's First Bank Heist and Baby's First Jailbreak.

Download or read book The Secret Train Robber written by Lee Sturley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crime of the Century. The biggest train heist in Britain’s history. The Great Train Robbery. In the early hours of Thursday, 8th August 1963, a fifteen-strong gang stole £2.6 million (£45 million of today’s money) from the Glasgow to London mail train at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire. The crime was so epic; every single development of the case was followed tirelessly by the press. Countless books have since been published and, even today, films, television dramas and documentaries continue to study the smallest of details of one of the most daring and cleverly concocted criminal plans of all-time. Much of the gang were later captured and paid the price with lengthy jail sentences. But 50 years on, many still question who the real mastermind behind the plot. For years most people accepted that Bruce Reynolds was but is that really the case? One man knows the answer and the true identity of the man behind the robbery all too well. In this engrossing biography, the only living person who personally knows the real mastermind revisits the Great Train Robbery and rewrites history as we know it. Full of explosive, fresh revelations, The Secret Train Robber sees the final piece of the puzzle firmly set in place and the name of one of Britain’s most sophisticated criminal minds ever is finally revealed.

Download or read book The Autobiography of a Thief written by Bruce Reynolds and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 8th August 1963 a gang of 15 men stopped a mail train in Buckinghamshire and proceeded to steal sacks of money worth £2.6 million. It was the biggest heist ever carried out in the UK and frontpage news around the world. The mastermind behind this most audacious crime of the twentieth century was Bruce Reynolds. Perhaps the last of the 'gentlemen villains'; Reynolds epitomised that particular breed of sharply dressed, post-war criminals who mixed with royalty and movie stars, and never carried a gun. They thrived on adventure and glamour, and the Great Train Robbery was their last ride. From his childhood and early forays into crime, to planning the robbery and his life on the run, and finally his capture, prison years and growing old with the gang - this is a true crime classic. Widely regarded as a one of the finest memoirs of a life of crime, Autobiography of a Thief is essential listening for anyone interested in true crime. Narrated by his son, Nick Reynolds, who grew up on the run with his father.

Download or read book How to Rob a Train written by Gordon Goody and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Goody is the mystery man of the Great Train Robbery, the most notorious theft in British history. Regarded by his partners as tough and fearless, he has kept his silence for five decades. Until now. Raised in rural Northern Ireland, Goody served as an army sergeant but chose a life of crime and became one of the most professional and prolific robbers in London. He and his gang were offered the job of a lifetime: details of a Glasgow to London mail train laden with cash, provided by The Ulsterman, whose identity Goody reveals for the first time.

Download or read book The Robber Barons written by Matthew Josephson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1962 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry Villard, Standard Oil Company, trusts.

Download or read book The Old West s Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists written by W.C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging down a set of rails at high speed? For the Old West’s most famous outlaws, including Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Dalton Gang, and Black Jack Ketchum, it was as much about the thrill of the crime as the riches to be won, thumbing their noses at the authorities, and getting away with their crimes more often than not. These men, and at least one woman, were dare devils, rule breakers, adventurers, and rebels. In addition to their train robberies, they led colorful, dramatic, and dangerous lives. The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics of each of their train robberies—planning, execution, and escape—are dissected and discussed. Pertinent background information relating to each outlaw/gang is included as well as what became of them following their train-robbery days.