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We're Dead, Come On In

Bruce Davis
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A true crime account of a mass shooting by gangster brothers which resulted in the deaths of six police officers in Depression-era Missouri.

"In all the annals of preservation of the peace there is no story that runs more gallantly than this." Springfield Leader, January 4, 1932

As dusk fell on a bitterly cold night during the Great Depression, a posse of ten local lawmen approached two brothers holed up in an isolated Missouri farmhouse. Minutes later, six officers were dead, three were wounded, and the outlaws had escaped. After a wild car chase through Oklahoma and across Texas, police finally surrounded Harry and Jennings Young in their Houston hideout.

The brutal killings attracted the national press (at first Pretty Boy Floyd was rumored to be involved) and the "carnival of carnage" that became known as the Young Brothers Massacre represented the highest number of law enforcement officers killed on a single day until September 11, 2001. Even in the hardscrabble Ozarks, a region historically known for frontier justice and vigilante activity, these crimes caused a sensation, and the Young brothers briefly joined the ranks of infamy with Bonnie and Clyde and other famous outlaws.

Author Bruce Davis, a third-generation Methodist minister from Springfield, Missouri, became fascinated with this forgotten case after noticing a memorial to the six fallen police officers in his local police station. He has devoted this account, his first book, to telling the whole story and honoring the brave lawmen who died in their attempts to exact justice.

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Generi Storia e Biografie » Storia delle Americhe

Editore Arcadia Publishing

Formato Ebook con Adobe DRM

Pubblicato 30/11/2005

Lingua Inglese

EAN-13 9781455614059

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