Gangster Tour of Texas.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Intoduction -- Chapter 1. Bonnie and Clyde Slept Here: On the Trail of the Barrow Gang -- Chapter 2. Four Brothers in Crime: The Newton Boys, Express Car and Bank Robbers of Uvalde -- Chapter 3. The Southern Pacific Pyroll Robbery in El Paso: An Attempted Heist, the Murder of an Innocent Man, and an International Prisoner Exchange -- Chapter 4. Becky Rogers, the Flapper Bandit -- Chapter 5. The Stanton Frame-up: Killing Blameless Men for a Bounty -- Chapter 6. The Santa Claus Bank Robbery -- Chapter 7. Captain Charlie and the Rum King of San Antonio -- Chapter 8. The urschel Kidnapping: Machine Gun Kelly's Foray into Texas -- Chapter 9. The Texas and Pacific Mail Robbery in Fort Worth: Robbery, Cold-blooded Murder, and Incarceration on Alcatraz -- Chapter 10. The Unsolved Murder of Frank Nand Singh: Immigrant Smuggling on the Mexican Border in the 1930s -- Chapter 11. The Post Morphine Ring: Dope Dealing at the Edge of the Caprock -- Chapter 12. The Greatest Medical Charlatan of Them All: Dr. John R. Brinkley and His Empire of Fraud in Del Rio -- Chapter 13. High Stakes Gambling Underground at Top O'Hill Terrace -- Chapter 14. Bascom Giles: Bribery at the Highest Levels in the Texas General Land Office -- Chapter 15. The Houston Police Dope Scandal: Selling Heroin Back to the Dealers -- Chapter 16. Two Brothers and Caming over Gulf Waters: The End of the Gangster Era in Texas -- Index.

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