The Life And Death Of Pretty Boy Floyd
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Life And Death Of Pretty Boy Floyd
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Author : Jeffery S. King
language : en
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Release Date : 1998
Life And Death Of Pretty Boy Floyd written by Jeffery S. King and has been published by Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Charles Arthur Floyd, aka Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934), was one of the last so-called Robin Hood outlaws. He engaged in numerous bank-robbing exploits across the Midwest until federal agents and local police shot him down near East Liverpool, Ohio, on October 22, 1934. This detailed account of his life, crimes and death makes extensive use of FBI reports, government records, local newspapers and contemporary journalistic accounts.
The Life And Death Of Pretty Boy Floyd
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Author : Jeffery S. King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-10
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Jeffery King's entertaining biography of the Public Enemy Number One of 1934 is a piece of historical detective work that is scholarly as well as gripping. He not only relates Floyd's life & career from youth to death from lawmen's bullets, but chronicles the many crimes in which he took part or masterminded. King brings us back to the days of John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, & Ma Barker & her boys. Amidst these robbin' hoods, Floyd was seen as Robin Hood . . . . Like a populist politician, he convinced others & perhaps himself that he was, after all, only robbing the big money guys & that he loved the poor. King's story, based mainly on FBI files & contemporary newspaper accounts, moves along like a well-maintained getaway car. Black & white photos.
Pretty Boy The Life And Times Of Charles Arthur Floyd
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Author : Michael Wallis
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-07-18
Pretty Boy The Life And Times Of Charles Arthur Floyd written by Michael Wallis and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.
Pretty Boy Floyd The Notorious Life And Death Of The Depression Era Outlaw
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-02-26
Pretty Boy Floyd The Notorious Life And Death Of The Depression Era Outlaw written by Charles River Editors and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "If you'll gather 'round me, children, a story I will tell'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an Outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well." - Woody Guthrie, "The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd" (1939) November 1, 1932 was a fine autumn day in the sleepy, cotton-farming city of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, the heart of Sequoyah County. The blinding rays of the midday sun were shining their brightest, but the otherwise blistering heat was offset by a brisk breeze. These were ideal conditions for a Tuesday, a seemingly pedestrian day of the week, but what was unfolding in the Sallisaw State Bank was anything but ordinary. At first glance, it would seem as if a traveling carnival or a homegrown celebrity had come to town. The sidewalks of the city bank and its surrounding establishments were teeming with locals, generations of families, young lovebirds, and clusters of friends. Indeed, they had convened to witness a spectacle, albeit one of an entirely different sort. The doors of the Sallisaw State Bank swung open with a resounding bang, signaling the start of the show. Out staggered a pair of thieves, each toting bulging sacks of bills and coins and glinting Colt .45s. The hogtied tellers inside the bank desperately wriggled across the floor to voice their distress, craning their necks and directing their muffled screams towards the open door. One had even managed to squirm out of his gag and was calling out to the crowd across the street for help. Unfortunately, his cries were negated, not by the spectators' own cries of alarm, but by thunderous applause, supplemented by whoops, whistles, and a constellation of waving handkerchiefs. Some of those who cleared the path for the robbers' getaway car were supposedly patrons present in the establishment during the stick-up itself. The ringleader, a striking young gentleman with a square jaw, a smoldering squint, and dark hair slicked back with scented pomade, acknowledged his admirers with a quick nod before ducking into the running vehicle. According to local lore, quite a few of the spectators had been briefed on the robbery beforehand by none other than the ringleader himself. So bold was he in his endeavors that he strolled into the bank's neighboring establishments in the days prior and simply asked its proprietors to refrain from ringing the cops, to which they gladly agreed. He even left those complicit with enough time to extract their savings from the bank. The dashing ringleader, hailed by many as the "Robin Hood of Cookson Hills," was none other than Pretty Boy Floyd, a perplexing character as abhorred as he was revered. To the feds, Pretty Boy Floyd was a venomous, manipulative scoundrel who was egregiously lionized as an anti-hero with a heart of gold. A career bank robber supposedly associated with up to 40 bank robberies, his face would soon be plastered on the 1934 poster of the FBI's Most Wanted alongside John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Alvin Karper. He was also implicated in multiple murders, yet Pretty Boy Floyd's admirers have been willing to overlook these crimes, with some even providing justifications for his behavior and contending that he was unfairly vilified for fighting an unjust system. To them, he was singled out as a scapegoat, and he used that angle himself, once noting, "I guess I've been accused of everything that has happened, except the kidnapping of the Lindbergh child, last spring." As this all suggests, it is virtually impossible to assemble a thoroughly objective profile of the outlaw more than 80 years after his life of crime.
Pretty Boy Floyd
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Author : Larry McMurtry
language : en
Publisher: Pocket Books
Release Date : 1994
Pretty Boy Floyd written by Larry McMurtry and has been published by Pocket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
A country boy took a big step towards becoming a legend when he robs his first armored car.
Public Enemy Number One Pretty Boy Floyd
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Author : Sue L. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: ABDO & Daughters
Release Date : 1989
Public Enemy Number One Pretty Boy Floyd written by Sue L. Hamilton and has been published by ABDO & Daughters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An account of the bank robberies and killings by "Pretty Boy" Floyd and his death by FBI agents.
Prophet Singer
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Author : Mark Allan Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-18
Prophet Singer written by Mark Allan Jackson and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-18 with Music categories.
Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie examines the cultural and political significance of lyrics by beloved songwriter and activist Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie. The text traces how Guthrie documented the history of America's poor and disadvantaged through lyrics about topics as diverse as the Dust Bowl and the poll tax. Divided into chapters covering specific historical topics such as race relations and lynchings, famous outlaws, the Great Depression, and unions, the book takes an in-depth look at how Guthrie manipulated his lyrics to explore pressing issues and to bring greater political and economic awareness to the common people. Incorporating the best of both historical and literary perspectives, Mark Allan Jackson references primary sources including interviews, recordings, drawings, and writings. He includes a variety of materials from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Woody Guthrie Archives. Many of these have never before been widely available. The result provides new insights into one of America's most intriguing icons. Prophet Singer offers an analysis of the creative impulse behind and ideals expressed in Guthrie's song lyrics. Details from the artist's personal life as well as his interactions with political and artistic movements from the first half of the twentieth century afford readers the opportunity to understand how Guthrie's deepest beliefs influenced and found voice in the lyrics that are now known and loved by millions.
Pretty Boy
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Author : Bill Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
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Pretty Boy written by Bill Brooks and has been published by Speaking Volumes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
THE EPIC LIFE OF PRETTY BOY FLOYD Charles Pretty Boy Floyd became the FBI's most wanted man in America. A depression era young man out of the Oklahoma Hill country decided he no longer wanted to work as a field hand and common laborer. Everywhere in the Dirty 30s, men, and in one case, women (Bonnie Parker) had decided to use a gun to get what they wanted, and so did Charley. His first real job was that of robbing the Kroger Company Payroll Office where one of the women there described him as being "Just a mere boy—a pretty boy." The name stuck and from then on that is what the newspapers called him. His good looks didn't hurt with the ladies either and he ended up with both a wife and girlfriend clear up to the time of his death. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a personal vendetta against what he considered the scourge of the land and set his main Agent, Melvin Purvis to take down the most notorious of them, beginning with Johnny Dillinger who was ambushed outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, thus moving Pretty Boy to the top of the list.
Public Enemies
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Author : Bryan Burrough
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-04-29
Public Enemies written by Bryan Burrough and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-29 with History categories.
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.
The Mythical West
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Author : Richard W. Slatta
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-11-20
The Mythical West written by Richard W. Slatta and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-20 with Social Science categories.
This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture. Ever since the days of the 49ers and George Armstrong Custer, the Old West has been America's most potent source of legend. But it is sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction. Did you know, for example, that Annie Oakley was a talented marksman who shot an estimated 40,000 rounds per year while practicing and performing for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in the late l800s? Or that many interpreters believe that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not just a fairy tale, but also a Populist allegory? These are just two of the folk legends dissected and examined in this veritable cultural geography. The volume covers everything from billionaire Howard Hughes and composer Aaron Copeland to Aztlan (the legendary first city of the Aztecs) and Area 51, the top-secret U.S. Air Force base at Groom Lake, Nevada, that has fascinated UFO and conspiracy buffs.