| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 330 p. : ill. (some col.), map. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Organized crime -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
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Gangsters -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
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Gangsters -- Homes and haunts -- Texas.
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Heritage tourism -- Texas.
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Texas -- History, Local.
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Texas -- Description and travel.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1603442588 (flexbound : alk. paper) |
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9781603442589 |
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1603444076 (electronic bk.) |
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9781603444071 (electronic bk.) |
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