Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update

by James R Knight, Jonathan Davis (With)

Overview

A new contribution to the growing body of historical research on the outlaw couple, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, whose story has taken on near-mythical status but often has been told with little regard for the facts. Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First Century update includes eyewitness accounts not seen elsewhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571687944
Publisher:	Eakin Press
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	229
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	v
	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction: The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde	1
1.	The Barrow Family	4
2.	Growing Up "Barrow"	6
3.	The Move to Dallas	9
4.	Country Boys in the Big City	11
5.	The Great Divide	15
6.	Breaking into the Bigtime	19
7.	Bonnie	24
8.	Busted	27
9.	"You're the Sweetest Baby in the World to Me"	30
10.	The Dumbbell Bandits	32
11.	Hard Time: Eastham Farm	35
12.	The Ex-Con	40
13.	Mud, Mules, and the Lake Dallas Gang	44
14.	Suicide Sal	48
15.	A Bad Night in Oklahoma	53
16.	On the Run	56
17.	Accidental Tourists	59
18.	"Deacon" Jones	65
19.	"Don't Shoot ... Think of My Babies!"	68
20.	The Midnight Ride of Tom Persell	71
21.	Joplin	74
22.	"Promise You'll Embalm Us"	83
23.	Crash and Burn	86
24.	"Worse than Pretty Boy Floyd"	90
25.	Platte City	99
26.	"Take Blanche and Run For It ... I'm Done For"	103
27.	"He Was a Good Boy When He Was Little"	113
28.	The Sowers Ambush	116
29.	The Eastham Raid	123
30.	The Professionals: The Gang	130
31.	The Professionals: The Law	139
32.	Easter Sunday	142
33.	"Tell Them I Don't Smoke Cigars"	148
34.	The Barrow-Hamilton Newspaper Feud	151
35.	"The Road Gets Dimmer and Dimmer"	157
36.	"They Sow the Wind and Reap the Whirlwind"	161
37.	A Macabre Circus	168
38.	The Harboring Trial	178
	Epilogue	182
Appendix 1	The Ballad of Donnabell Lee	195
Appendix 2	Bonnie and Clyde Death Car History	197
Appendix 3	Killings Done by Clyde Barrow or Gang Members	200
Appendix 4	Banks Robbed by Clyde Barrow	202
	Endnotes	204
	Bibliography	221
	Index	224