Texas Ranger : : the Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the man who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
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A cowboy of the Hill Country -- Texas Ranger -- One riot, one Ranger -- Marshal of Navasota -- From Houston to the open range -- The bandit war -- The Johnson-Sims feud -- Gunsmoke on the Rio Grande -- "This ruffian Haymer" -- The lone Ranger -- Hell Paso -- Gunfighter -- Boomtown -- The Ku Klux Klan -- Ma and Pa Ferguson -- The hinges of Hell -- The murder machine -- Town tamer -- Funerals in Sherman -- Bonnie and Clyde -- The Barrow hunt -- "We shot the Devil out of them" -- Frank Hamer vs. Lyndon B. Johnson.
"Chronicles the life of Frank Hamer, whose extraordinary career as a Texas Ranger made him one of the West's most legendary lawmen."--NoveList.
From the horseback days of the Old West through the gangster days of the 1930s, Hamer stood on the frontlines of some of the most important and exciting periods in American history. He participated in the Bandit War of 1915, battled the Mexican Revolutions spillover across the border, protected African Americans from lynch mobs and the Ku Klux Klan, and ran down gangsters, bootleggers, and Communists. But popular media have labeled Hamer as the "villain" of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Boessenecker sets out to restore Hamer's good name, and tells the full story of this near-mythic lawman.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: x, 514 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250069986
125006998X
SUBJECTS
Hamer, Frank, -- 1884-1955.
Barrow, Clyde, -- 1909-1934.
Parker, Bonnie, -- 1910-1934.
Texas Rangers -- Biography.
Police -- Texas -- Biography.
Law enforcement -- Texas -- History.
Biographies.