Gangster tour of Texas

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Hlavní autor: Baker, T. Lindsay
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
Vydání:1st ed.
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  • 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.