The Reno Gang saga remains a provocative story that still evokes anger after the tragic events unfolded in 1868. The author received this email from a local Seymour, Indiana resident just after they had read the new book "Anarchy in the Heartland":
"... By whose standards can no one “justify the lynching” of the Reno brothers and the gang members? ... I hope you will reconsider some of your conclusions about Seymour's early residents after further research. Perfect? Never. Desperate at times? Of course. Rascally at times? No doubt. But real people ... who dealt with the real problems of their day when their government let them down ... without ever changing human nature." - (name withheld) Seymour, Indiana
The book pulls no punches when examining the actions of the "leading citizens" of Seymour, Indiana around the Civil War era. Today, this resident of Seymour, Indiana apparently believes that their city founders and leading citizens did what they had to do and lays the blame elsewhere for the mass murders committed in 1868.
Anarchy in the Heartland is available here.
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