Pretty Boy The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
by Wallis, MichaelEdition: 00
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-06-06
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66 , a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.
Author Biography
Michael Wallis, a renowned chronicler of the Old West, is the best-selling author of Route 66, Billy the Kid, and David Crockett. Frequently appearing on television and in documentary films, Wallis plays the Sheriff in the animated Pixar features Cars and Cars 2. He lives with his wife in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Table of Contents
| The Conkle Farm Near Clarkson, Ohio | p. xiii |
| 1904-1914 Charley | |
| Child of Aquarius | p. 3 |
| The Floyds | p. 8 |
| Georgia Roots | p. 12 |
| Baptism by Fire | p. 19 |
| Adairsville, Georgia | p. 32 |
| Sequoyah County | p. 37 |
| Outlaw Ghosts | p. 45 |
| King Cotton | p. 55 |
| Heroes | p. 60 |
| America's Robin Hood | p. 67 |
| 1914-1925 Choc | |
| Moonshine | p. 81 |
| Akins, Oklahoma | p. 90 |
| Over There | p. 100 |
| Wanderlust | p. 113 |
| Bootleg Harvest | p. 125 |
| One Step Over the Line | p. 140 |
| Star Light, Star Bright | p. 155 |
| Ruby | p. 172 |
| The St. Louis Blues | p. 181 |
| 1925-1934 Pretty Boy | |
| The Pen | p. 197 |
| Tom's Town | p. 213 |
| The Walls Come Tumbling Down | p. 231 |
| Whirlwind | p. 247 |
| Dog Days | p. 267 |
| On the Scout | p. 287 |
| The Phantom Terror | p. 309 |
| The Midnight Rambler | p. 333 |
| Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? | p. 358 |
| The Summer of '33 | p. 384 |
| The Massacre | p. 406 |
| Trail's End | p. 425 |
| Epilogue: Sallisaw, Oklahoma | p. 454 |
| Select Bibliography and Source Notes | p. 475 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 485 |
| Index | p. 493 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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