Baker, T. Lindsay. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. txu College Station Texas A&M University Press 2011 1st ed. monographic eng

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xv, 330 p. : ill. (some col.), map. 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. T. Lindsay Baker. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us-tx 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 travel HV6793.T4 B35 2011eb 364.106/609764 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10482291 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10482291 CaPaEBR 110103 ebr10482291