Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults
One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of fourteen. At nineteen he met Clyde Barrow in a Texas prison, and the two men together founded what would later be known as the Barrow gang. Running with Bonnie and Clyde is the story of Fults's experiences in the Texas criminal underworld between the years 1925 and 1935 and the gripping account of his involvement with the Barrow gang, particularly its notorious duo,...
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Ralph Fults was only nineteen when he first met Clyde Barrow, but he was already one of the most sought-after criminals in Texas. Running with Bonnie and Clyde is the gripping account of Fults's experiences in the Texas underworld between the years 1925 and 1935 and his involvement with the Barrow gang, particularly the notorious Bonnie and Clyde. John Neal Phillips relies primarily on Fults's testimony, augmenting his narrative with scores of eyewitness interviews and material from police files, court documents, and contemporary news accounts and incorporating new information for this paperback edition.
List of IllustrationsixPrefacexiAcknowledgementsxvChapter 1.May 23, 19343Chapter 2.September 18, 19306Chapter 3."Slim Jim"9Chapter 4.Gatesville13Chapter 5.Escape from the Hole21Chapter 6.Clyde and the "Bloody' Ham"33Chapter 7.The Lake Dallas Gang59Chapter 8.Who Pulled the Trigger in Hillsboro?93Chapter 9.Money from Joplin114Chapter 10."They Think We're Just School Kids"134Chapter 11.The Raid159Chapter 12.Death in the Morning179Chapter 13.The Road to Gibsland200Chapter 14.Escape from the Death House220Chapter 15.Ambush in McKinney236Chapter 16.Mississippi258Chapter 17.The Last Ride275Chapter 18."Boss Killer" and the Shadow of the Gallows297Epilogue305Notes323Bibliography371Index379
