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Secret Partners : Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang /
Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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St. Paul, MN :
Minnesota Historical Society Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected the gang from raids by the nascent FBI--and while he did all this, the gangsters gunned down cops and citizens in his hometown. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations ; |
| ISBN: | 9780873519052 |