Gangster tour of Texas
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
2011.
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| 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.