Author Info

Dave Distler

About

He is the author of numerous articles for national and international trade journals and has self-published several books including “Ohio River Valley Families”, a 200+ page genealogy work. He has also written fiction and non-fiction books.

His 2007 non-fiction book titled “Anarchy in the Heartland” explores the notorious yet forgotten Reno Brothers Gang; the world’s first train robbers. In 2009, on a challenge, he wrote a supernatural thriller “The Lost Souls of Bell Valley; a historical fiction account of the 1925 wreck of the airship USS Shenandoah in southeastern Ohio. He was the Executive Producer of the 2013 documentary “The Legend of the Reno Brothers” and appears in it as a Reno Historian.

The Lost Resorts and Cottages…is a series of visual history books. They are focused on The Cottage Era, a  piece of lost Americana from the mid-20th century in the upper Midwestern states.There are now 3 books in the series; 2 on Long Lake, Alpena, Michigan and 1 on Grand Lake, Celina, Ohio.