Samuel Mason was the leader of a fearsome group of river pirates stalking the Ohio River.

They would steal from anyone who came by, sometimes killing their victims in the process.

When a group of locals decided enough was enough, Mason and his men were run out of their hunting ground—but that wasn’t the end of the story.

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