TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,T.Lindsay
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Gangster tour of Texas
AV  - HV6793.T4 B35 2011eb
U1  - 364.106/609764 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A&M University Press
KW  - Organized crime
KW  - Texas
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Gangsters
KW  - Homes and haunts
KW  - Heritage tourism
KW  - History, Local
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10482291
ER  -