| Description |
142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Kansas Notable Book ; 2016.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 131-138) |
| Contents |
Examples of the contest -- The strange and the bizarre -- Wrong career choices -- Amateur yeggs and unsolved robberies -- The deadliest heists -- Fighting back: citizens, bankers and vigilantes -- The professionals: the business of robbing banks -- The professionals: the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. |
| Summary |
"Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower State. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace. One group even had an airplane with a .50-caliber machine gun. Join author Rod Beemer for a wild ride into Kansas's tumultuous bank heist history"-- Page 4 of cover. |
| Source |
B&T 02.2016 PARS |
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KS Notable Book Grant 2016 CUB |
| Awards |
Kansas Notable Book, 2016. |
| Subject |
Bank robberies -- Kansas -- History.
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Kansas -- History.
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Bank robberies. (OCoLC)fst00826782
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781626198357 (pbk.) |
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1626198357 (pbk.) |
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