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Renegade Press, Published 1996. Paperback, iv, 97, [40] pp.; 23 cm; illustrated with pen-and-ink portraits, maps, and black-and-white photographs. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on title page, with thanks "for a productive stay at 'Camp Beaver,'" dated Bend, Or. 9/20/02.
In Very Good condition. Glossy brown pictorial covers with photograph of a steam locomotive on front and author photograph on rear; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear, a few light scuffs near top edge of front cover, a hint of color loss along fore edge. Binding tight. Aside from the inscription, pages clean and unmarked. Narrative history of the November 3, 1893 holdup of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern's southbound No. 51 at Olyphant, Jackson County, Arkansas, by a "One-Time-Only Train Robbing Gang" of four part-time criminals and four farmers, in which conductor William P. McNally was killed. Follows the gang from whiskey-peddling in the Cherokee Nation through the robbery, the manhunt and trial, the triple hanging of Brady, Wyrick and Mansker at Newport in April 1894, and the pardon of state's witness George Padgett; three robbers were never caught. Hipp, a former reporter for the Jackson County Democrat in Newport, interviewed descendants of the robbers and traces the loot to the Roy Chesney Fund of Siloam Springs. Includes wanted-poster sketches, mug shots, photographs of the gallows, maps of the robbery site and escape routes, and appendices of 1893-94 newspaper accounts and Chesney's will. Cited as a source by the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Contents: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Epilogue-Prologue; A Meeting on Markham Prairie; It All Begins; On Board Number 51; Holdup on the Iron Mountain; The Escape; The Trial; Pennyweight Powell's Escape; Triple Hanging; Pennyweight and George Padgett; The Rest of the Story; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C.