Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and ClydeSimon and Schuster, 2012 M12 25 - 480 pages From the moment they first cut a swathe of crime across 1930s America, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been glamorised in print, on screen and in legend. The reality of their brief and catastrophic lives is very different -- and far more fascinating. Combining exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material, author Jeff Guinn tells the real story of two youngsters from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more important, fame. Thanks in great part to surviving relatives of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who provided Guinn with access to never-before-published family documents and photographs, this book reveals the truth behind the myth, told with cinematic sweep and unprecedented insight by a master storyteller. |
Contents
Prologue | 1900 |
BEFORE | 1904 |
Henry and Cumie | 1905 |
The Devils Back Porch | 1915 |
Clyde | 1922 |
Bonnie | |
Dumbbells | |
The Bloody Ham | |
The Platte City Shootout | |
The Battle of Dexfield Park 21 Buck and Blanche | |
Struggling to Survive | |
The Eastham Breakout | |
Hamer | |
THE HUNT | |
The New Barrow Gang | |
Hamer on the Trail | |
Decision | |
THE BARROW GANG | |
A Stumbling Start | |
Bonnie in Jail | |
Murder in Stringtown | |
Clyde and Bonnie on the | |
The Price of Fame | |
Raymond and W D | |
It Gets Mixed Up | |
The Shootout in Joplin | |
Shooting Stars | |
Disaster in Wellington Murder in Arkansas | |
The Last Interlude | |
The Methvins Make a Deal | |
Bloody Easter | |
Hamer Forms a Posse | |
Another Murder | |
The Letters of April | |
The Noose Tightens | |
Final Meetings | |
A New Line of Work | |
Consequences | |
Note on Sources | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowledgments | |
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