Then, in the spring of 1934, he had them cornered. And he can hear a crack of thunder thirty seconds before anybody else can.' And he claims in interviews he can see a bullet in flight. 'Hamer himself used the power of mythology and was this huge man for those days. Hamer's mission: Bring 'em in, dead or alive. Which bring us to this man: Retired Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. What money you're gonna get, where you gonna spend it? Where you gonna go? I mean, you're just like a hunted, you know, animal.' 'Nothing glamorous about it, period,' said Buddy Williams. To get more of that, Clyde turned to crime by the age of 16 … first, small-time thefts that barely got him noticed, except by police. 'What it must have been like at night when it was dark here and there's nothing but a few cooking fires, and then right across the river a couple miles away you see these gleaming skyscrapers with all these wonderful things … what kid wouldn't want more of that?' said Guinn. The Barrows, all these poor people pitching a tent, the Barrows don't even have a tent, they've got a wagon, and at night they would sleep under the wagon.'įrom their campsite, young Clyde could look across the Trinity River to downtown Dallas, to a life that was out of reach. 'You could have thousands of people all along here. When he was a teenager, Clyde's family moved to West Dallas to a notorious slum called 'The Bog.' Guinn described this tent community:

The expression 'dirt poor' understates the way he grew up, Ĭlyde Barrow was the fifth of seven children.

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