Gangster tour of Texas [[electronic resource] /] / T. Lindsay Baker
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| Autore: |
Baker T. Lindsay
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| Titolo: |
Gangster tour of Texas [[electronic resource] /] / T. Lindsay Baker
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| Pubblicazione: | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.106/609764 |
| Soggetto topico: | Organized crime - Texas - History - 20th century |
| Gangsters - Texas - History - 20th century | |
| Gangsters - Homes and haunts - Texas | |
| Heritage tourism - Texas | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Texas History, Local |
| Texas Description and travel | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gangster tour of Texas |
| ISBN: | 1-60344-407-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781203903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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