02293cam a2200313 4500 1163987047 TxAuBib 20111231120000.0 110103s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010054349 9781603442589 flexbound : alk. paper 1603442588 flexbound : alk. paper TXA/DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Baker, T. Lindsay. Gangster tour of Texas / T. Lindsay Baker. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011. 330 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. 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. 20111231. Organized crime Texas History 20th century. Gangsters Texas History 20th century. Gangsters Homes and haunts Texas. Heritage tourism Texas. Texas History, Local. Texas Description and travel. TXKIP