Missouri's Wicked Route 66
Subtitle: Gangsters and Outlaws on the Mother Road
By: Lisa Livingston-Martin
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charleston; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781609497668
Subjects: Outlaws; History; Gangsters; Miscellanea
Description: Tracing Route 66 through Missouri represents one of America's favorite exercises in nostalgia, but a discerning glance among the roadside weeds reveals the kind of sordid history that doesn't appear on postcards. Along with vintage cars and picnic baskets, Route 66 was a conduit humming with contraband and crackling with the gunplay of folks like Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James and the Young brothers. It was also the preferred byway of lynch mobs, murderous hitchhikers and mad scientists. Stop in at places like the Devil's Elbow and the Steffleback Bordello on this trip through the more treacherous twists of the Mother Road.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127).
Table of contents: title: Route 66: America's Road; title: Jack the Ripper: St. Louis Connection?; title: Joseph Nash McDowell: Brilliant Surgeon or Mad Scientist?; title: Lemp Family: Fortune and Tragedy; title: Devil's Elbow: Murder Unpunished; title: The Wild West Gunfight is Born on Route 66; title: The Young Brothers: Largest Massacre of Law Enforcement in American History before 9/11; title: Mob Violence and Lynching; title: Bonnie and Clyde: a Legend is Born on Route 66; title: Billy Cook: Murder Hitchhikes on Route 66; title: Jesse and Frank James: Missouri's Sons and Outlaws; title: The "Stefflebeck" Bordello: the Staffleback House of Ill Fame and Gruesome Horrors.