My Life With Bonnie And Clyde

by Barrow, Blanche Caldwell

• ISBN13: 9780806137155
• ISBN10: 0806137150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-31
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, Bonnie and Clyde were joined by Clyde's brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche. Of these four accomplices, only one--Blanche Caldwell Barrow--lived beyond early adulthood and only Blanche left behind a written account of their escapades. Edited by outlaw expert John Neal Phillips, Blanche's previously unknown memoir is here available for the first time. Blanche wrote her memoir between 1933 and 1939, while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary. Following her death, Blanche's good friend and the executor of her will, Esther L. Weiser, found the memoir wrapped in a large unused Christmas card. Later she entrusted it to Phillips, who had interviewed Blanche several times before her death. Drawing from these interviews, and from extensive research into Depression-era outlaw history, Phillips supplements the memoir with helpful notes and with biographical information about Blanche and her accomplices.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Maps	xi
Foreword	xiii
Esther L. Weiser
Editor's Preface	xvii
Editor's Introduction	xxvii
Chronology	xxxv
View from a Cell	3	(2)
Marriage	5	(9)
Buck Makes a Pardon	14	(22)
Joplin	36	(22)
Ruston	58	(6)
Friction	64	(8)
Mother's Day	72	(9)
Florida	81	(7)
A Visit with My Father	88	(6)
Wellington	94	(4)
Fort Smith	98	(7)
Platte City	105	(17)
Dexfield Park	122	(15)
Mob	137	(7)
Court	144	(3)
Afterword	147	(2)
Editor's Conclusion	149	(50)
Appendix A: Reproduction of Two Pages from the Original Manuscript	199	(3)
Appendix B: Blanche's Letter to Her Father, November 11, 1933	202	(2)
Appendix C: Buck's Letter Home, January 16, 1930	204	(2)
Appendix D: The Barrow Gang's Victims	206	(18)
Appendix E: Blanche's Preliminary Parole Report	224	(1)
Notes	225	(74)
Bibliography	299	(10)
Index	309