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Gangster tour of Texas [electronic resource] / T. Lindsay Baker.

By: Baker, T. Lindsay.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: xv, 330 p. : ill. (some col.), map.Subject(s): Organized crime -- Texas -- History -- 20th century | Gangsters -- Texas -- History -- 20th century | Gangsters -- Homes and haunts -- Texas | Heritage tourism -- Texas | Texas -- History, Local | Texas -- Description and travelGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.106/609764 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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