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The Most Famous Desperados Of The 1930's

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Two of the Southwest’s most famous desperados during the 1930’s were Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Bonnie and Clyde tormented the country, from Texas to Iowa and back for two years, murdering at least a dozen men and women, most of who were police officers. They regularly visited Oklahoma in the course of their robberies. Raised in the ratholes of West Dallas, Clyde Chestnut Barrow and Bonnie Parker Thornton met in early 1930. He was the son of a sharecropper who then started to run a gas station in West Dallas. Both Clyde and his older brother, Buck were in Huntsville Prison, they had been arrested several times for burglary and car theft. The two brothers liked to live on the wild side. While, Bonnie had no record, but she did have a

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