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Gangster tour of Texas
Title:
Gangster tour of Texas
Author:
Baker, T. Lindsay.
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
xv, 330 p. : ill. (some col.), map.
Contents:
Bonnie and Clyde slept here : on the trail of the Barrow Gang -- Four brothers in crime : the Newton Boys, express car and bank robbers of Uvalde -- The Southern Pacific payroll robbery in El Paso : an attempted heist, the murder of an innocent man, and an international prisoner exchange -- Becky Rogers, the flapper bandit -- The Stanton frame-up : killing blameless men for a bounty -- The Santa Claus Bank Robbery -- Captain Charlie and the Rum King of San Antonio -- The Urschel kidnapping : Machine Gun Kelly's foray into Texas -- The Texas and Pacific mail robbery in Fort Worth : robbery, cold-blooded murder, and incarceration on Alcatraz -- The unsolved murder of Frank Nand Singh: immigrant smuggling on the Mexican border in the 1930s -- The Post morphine ring : dope dealing at the edge of the Caprock -- The greatest medical charlatan of them all : Dr. John R. Brinkley and his empire of fraud in Del Rio -- High stakes gambling underground at Top O'Hill Terrace -- Bascom Giles : bribery at the highest levels in the Texas General Land Office -- The Houston Police dope scandal : selling heroin back to the dealers -- Two brothers and gaming over Gulf waters: the end of the gangster era in Texas.
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Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HV6793 .T4 B35 2011 | 1063008-1001 | Ebook Central | Searching... |
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