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My Life with Bonnie & Clyde
Blanche Caldwell Barrow, Esther L. Weiser (Foreword),
and John Neal Phillips
Hardbound with original dust jacket
325 pages with complete index
Profusely Illustrated
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Date Published: 2004
Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies.
But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law,
Bonnie and Clyde were joined by Clyde's brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche.
Of these four accomplices, only one--Blanche Caldwell Barrow--lived beyond early
adulthood and only Blanche left behind a written account of their escapades.
Edited by outlaw expert John Neal Phillips, Blanche's previously unknown memoir is
here available for the first time.
Blanche wrote her memoir between 1933 and 1939, while serving time at the Missouri
State Penitentiary. Following her death, Blanche's good friend and the executor of
her will, Esther L. Weiser, found the memoir wrapped in a large unused Christmas
card. Later she entrusted it to Phillips, who had interviewed Blanche several
times before her death. Drawing from these interviews, and from extensive research
into Depression-era outlaw history, Phillips supplements the memoir with helpful
notes and with biographical information about Blanche and her accomplices.
If you want an academic tome of the only member of the Barrow Gang who went on
to live a life away from crime, this book is the one. It is thorougly researched
with endnotes. John Neal Philips did a superb job in finding those still alive
who knew Bonnie and Clyde and Blanche is also interviewed and quoted in his
first book. Mr. Philips is thorough in his research and never relies on tabloid
style rumours which others who have written about these Depression Era Outlaws
have published as fact. He treats Blanche Barrow with dignity and respect and
had she lived to see this book go to press, I believe she'd have been very grateful.
This volume came from the collection of a discrete owner.
The book has been gently read, and the pages are clean and bright
with gentle light wear to it's cover.
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