Notorious Kansas Bank Heists:: Gunslingers to Gangsters

by Rod Beemer

Book Overview

Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower Scale. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626198357
• ISBN13: 9781626198357
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.8" x 10.0"