NightRiders, Incorporated, a defunct company that offered fee-based designated drivers
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In October 1908, a feud between the West Tennessee Land Company and Obion County residents over control of Reelfoot Lake resulted in two of the company's officers, Quentin Rankin and Robert Z. Taylor, being kidnapped by a vigilante group known as the Night Riders.
Initially formed as a response to the James B. Duke tobacco conglomerate (ATC), the Night Riders whipped disloyal members, murdered opponents, burned buildings, and seized entire towns.
A contemporary front-page account in the Nashville Banner tells that one lawyer—Captain Quentin Rankin—was murdered by being hanged and then shot, while the other—Colonel R.Z. Taylor (grandfather of author Peter Taylor)—escaped by swimming across the lake in the dark while being shot at by Night Riders.
As an avid music fan, Ryan spends his free time playing bass in a Los Angeles based band, The Night Riders which has headlined on Hollywood’s world famous Sunset Strip.