Bonnie and Clyde: Texas to Gibsland

Clyde Barrow was held at Eastham from April 1930 to May 1932. To avoid hard labor in the fields he had two toes amputated in late January 1932; his mother's parole petition succeeded, and he walked out on 2 February 1932. Barrow came back on 16 January 1934, when he freed five prisoners from the unit. Today it is the Eastham Unit, a working prison, so it is not a place to visit.

In spring 1933 Bonnie, Clyde, Buck, Blanche and W. D. Jones holed up in an apartment on Oakridge Drive in Joplin, Missouri, playing loud card games and buying "a case of beer a day". Neighbors grew suspicious, and on 13 April a five-man police force came to the door. Gunfire killed Detective Harry McGinnis and fatally wounded Constable J. W. Harryman. Bonnie fired a BAR as the gang fled, and its bullets splintered an oak tree beside Highway Patrol Sergeant G. B. Kahler.

場所の精度: The hideout was an apartment on Oakridge Drive, now a private address, so no pin is shown.

Near Platte City, Missouri, the gang rented two brick cabins in July 1933. Blanche Barrow's riding breeches stood out in town, and she paid the $4 bill, and later five chicken dinners, in small change. The driver backed the car into the garage "gangster style". At 11 p.m. on 20 July, Sheriff Coffey led officers with submachine guns to the cabins. The gang escaped when police mistook the armored car's shorted horn for a cease-fire signal.

The wounded gang fled north to Dexfield Park, a recently abandoned amusement park outside Dexter, Iowa. Buck's head wound was so severe that Clyde and a companion dug a grave for him. Local people had found bloody bandages, and police and about 100 spectators surrounded the camp. Clyde and Bonnie escaped on foot. Buck and Blanche were captured, and Buck died five days later in Perry. Dexter still remembers the shootout as its claim to fame.

場所の精度: The camp was near Dexter but the exact spot is not given, so no pin is shown.

On 23 May 1934, the morning of the ambush, Bonnie and Clyde ate their last meal, a breakfast, at Ma Canfield's Café in Gibsland, Louisiana. The building is now the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum, whose exhibits also cover the local posse members brought in for jurisdictional reasons. Every May, Gibsland holds a Bonnie and Clyde Festival with a staged bank robbery by actors playing the pair.

場所の精度: The pin marks Main Street in Gibsland; the exact building is not pinned.

訪問のヒント: The museum is in the former café in Gibsland; the festival is held in mid-May.

A posse of six waited in bushes along Louisiana Highway 154 south of Gibsland, toward Sailes. They had waited through the whole of 22 May with no sign of the pair. Around 9:15 am on 23 May a car came at speed; Barrow slowed beside a truck on the road shoulder, and the six lawmen opened fire. Barrow was shot in the head and died instantly. The officers fired about 130 rounds.

場所の精度: The sources locate the ambush only as off Highway 154 south of Gibsland, so no pin is shown.

Thousands gathered outside two Dallas funeral homes. Clyde's private funeral was held at sunset on 25 May 1934, and he was buried in Western Heights Cemetery next to his brother Marvin. Their shared granite marker carries the epitaph he chose: "Gone but not forgotten". Bonnie's family would not allow a joint burial; more than 20,000 people attended her funeral, and in 1945 her body was moved to Crown Hill Cemetery in Dallas.