The Lives and Times of Bonnie & Clyde
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The Lives and Times of Bonnie & Clyde
E. R. Milner
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Relying on primary sources—oral history interviews, personal memoirs, newspaper articles, official records, diaries, and letters—E. R. Milner cuts through myth and legend to create this startling portrait of the real Bonnie and Clyde.
In his prologue, Milner introduces Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, showing them as they drive along a rural Louisiana lane toward the ambush that would put a dramatic end to their turbulent lives of crime. Milner then traces their backgrounds, noting the events that bring the two outlaws together. The ensuing adventures of Bonnie and Clyde featured gun battles, narrow escapes and captures, frequent moves, and, of necessity, several shifts in personnel over a short period of time. It was a life of wild action, betrayal, and sometimes even gallantry. In the abstract, an aura of romance surrounded this violent pair.


Although the mythology surrounding Bonnie and Clyde is charged with drama and fascination, Milner reveals the truth behind the bloody legend, carefully gleaning materials from obscure locally published accounts, previously untapped court records, and archived but unpublished oral history accounts from some sixty victims, neighbors, relatives, and police who were involved in the exploits of the infamous duo. And the truth proves to be sufficiently exciting. Romance aside, the Barrow gang carved a grisly swath through Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. The string of deaths was long—and real: Akota, Oklahoma, sheriff severely wounded, deputy killed; Sherman, Texas, grocery clerk killed; Temple, Texas, man killed as gang attempts to steal his car; Joplin, Missouri, two officers killed; Alma, Arkansas, police officer killed; Crockette, Texas, prison guard killed; Miami, Oklahoma, police officer killed.



Milner traces this violent path until 23 May 1934, when Bonnie and Clyde die in an ambush. Even dead, they draw crowds and are buried in a circus-like atmosphere. In death they continue to intrigue us in ways few criminals had before or have since.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Craig Wells Amarillo Texas.......2006-05-12

Although this book is well written and highly informative,some facts are incorrect.The author states that the gang was driving east on Texas Highway 203 between Quail and Wellington.The truth is,they were driving north on highway 83,8 miles north of Wellington,between Wellington and Shamrock,when their car crashed into the Red River.Also Mrs.Pritchard is Mr.Pritchard`s daughter not wife.She is married to John Cartwright.When Mrs.Cartwright was shot in the hand by W.D.Jones,he fails to mention that she was holding her three month old son in her arms.The baby was not injured,altough window screen from the shotgun blast fired through the window hit the baby in the head.Mrs.Cartwright who is in her ninties is still living in Wellington Texas.When the gang fled they headed north towards Shamrock not east toward Wellington.

3 out of 5 stars Bonnie & Clyde researcher & writer.......2005-09-02

One thing for sure about this book by E. R. Milner is that he apparently did not visit the actual sites of many B & C gang's activities. He has names of towns, first and surnames of people, misspelled. He continued to use old material that has been done before and is incorrect in family history. However, Milner did publish the first death photo of Bonnie Parker. I believe that the "Lives and Times of Bonnie and Clyde" will be of interest to most people as their appeal continues to grow and millions still love to read more about their lives and crimes. I was fortunate to meet the author in 1999 in Miami, Oklahoma. He was a very gracious man and a good speaker. For all it's flaws, I would still recommend this book for your crime library.

Mike Koch, author of "The Kimes Gang."

2 out of 5 stars Average Book & Facts.......2004-11-13

I was disappointed with this book. The events described are an almost an hour by hour passage of time, during the short lives of these two antagonists. We really don't care what Clyde did at 2am on the morning of the 15th of the month if it really has nothing to do with the outcome of the event! It seems as if this author wrote these pages directly from a courtroom transcript or a witness' testimony. Furthermore, there are entirely too few pictures (we want to see more of Bonnie & Clyde - duh!!). Pass on this book and buy one of the others out there.

3 out of 5 stars Flawed Masterpiece.......2001-07-12

E.R. Milner has constructed a pretty fair history of the Barrow gang in The Lives and Times of Bonnie & Clyde. Using contemporary newspaper accounts and police records, he provides detailed accounts of even many of the gang's minor crimes, such as early gas station holdups, and we B&C buffs naturally want all the details we can get. There are some previously unpublished photos, which is a must. There is also too much dialogue for historical purposes, much of it taken, unfortunately, from Jan Fortune's error-strewn Fugitives, the ghosted 1934 memoirs of Emma Parker and Nell Barrow Cowan which in turn derived as much from Ed Portley's 1934 True Detective articles as it did from Bonnie's mother and Clyde's sister. There are quite a number of typos, mostly wrong first names and misspellings of surnames and it is equally unfortunate that Milner failed to visit many of the locations prominent in the Bonnie and Clyde story, where key participants in the events still live, such as Dexter, Iowa. Milner told me once he regretted not having gone to Iowa inasmuch as Dexter was the turning point in the gang's history just as surely as Northfield, Minnesota was the Waterloo of the James gang. Having recently reread this book, I also regret he didn't come to Iowa. The three gas stations the gang hit before going to the Platte City, MO motel were in Fort Dodge, Iowa, not Kansas. Speaking of Minnesota, a visit to Okabena would have raised considerable doubts in the author's mind as to the Barrows' guilt in the bank robbery there. No eyewitnesses ever identified the Barrows there but two men and a woman were later convicted of the Okabena bank job. Milner's epilogue leaves much to be desired. Clyde's mother was shot in 1938, as Milner reports, but not by "an unknown attacker." The would-be assassin was a former minor gang member ostracized by the Barrow family as a "rat" and the shooting resulted from a feud with them which also involved a number of bombings. Cumie was also more than "slightly wounded"--like Blanche she lost the sight of one eye. Little or nothing is recorded of the deaths of Bonnie's mother or other principal participants such as B&C ambushers Henderson Jordan, Prentiss Oakley and Manny Gault. Kidnap victim Thomas (wrongly named as Jimmy!) Persell is only recorded as having retired from the Springfield, MO P.D. And the sideshow "career" of the death car should have been traced down to its present whereabouts in a Nevada casino. In view of the errors and omissions, I feel I must drop a star from my previous rating of this work. Still, Milner did Bonnie and Clyde better than many before him and both his book and the recent Running With Bonnie and Clyde by John Neal Phillips deserve a respectable slot in any crime library.

3 out of 5 stars Falls short.......2000-11-10

I never tire of reading about Bonnie and Clyde and I enjoyed this book. It was very well researched. All quotes and sources are well documented. It was disappointingly short especially since the auther had so much great research to draw from. In a true crime book I also like lots of photographs. It gives me a feel for the period. The photo's in this book are few and of poor quality. This book is good and I recommend it. I can't help but think it could have been great, but falls short.

The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar: A Miscellany of History and Myth, Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days
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  • Florid style covers up any actual information book may or may not contain
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  • Beautiful Book For A Long Wintry Night
  • An interesting collection of information about our calendar
The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar: A Miscellany of History and Myth, Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days
Michael Judge
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1 out of 5 stars Florid style covers up any actual information book may or may not contain.......2007-06-20

When I got this book, I expected a history of our calendar and its links to the ancient world written for regular people as opposed to scholars. The writing is fluid, but so florid that it's hard to get actual information out of it. The writing is so self-indulgently flowery that it disguises the message rather than delivering it. Since the subject matter is in fact nonfiction, this is not a particularly effective style.

There are a lot of books out there on the history of the calendar that ARE readable, even to the non-academic. This one is not worth buying.

5 out of 5 stars Not What it Seems To Be.......2007-02-26

I came across this little paperback tucked in between more impressive-looking tomes at the bookstore in the European History section. If not for the subtitle, "A Miscellany of History and Myth, Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days," I'd never have bought it, because the title proper does not satisfactorily describe the content. I am not interested in TIME, per se, but I did write a master's thesis in folkart and am very interested in all kinds of folklore, genealogy, ritual, and comparative religion. So I bought it and have loved it...great bedside companion on these wintry nights. A huge bonus is the beautiful writing style of Mr. Judge - he makes pictures in my head - the highest praise of this artist/folklorist. The book justifies the deep human yearning to celebrate the cycles of the natural world without having to deny one's more conventional religious upbringing (no doubt a growing concern since paganism is one of the fastest growing religions). Comforting.

3 out of 5 stars Not meant to be a thorough exploration of the calendar.......2007-02-21

It's a little disconcerting writing a review of a book when you know the author himself reads them!

The key word in the title of this book is "miscelleny". I think I was hoping for a more comprehensive and studious tour through the wilds of the history of our calendar and how it came to be what it is today. Although it's clear that research was done and a history of how the calendar came to be is indeed tackled, it's all a bit... well, flowery, for my tastes.

Here's a small sampling of what I mean:
"...Deneb glittering in her beak like a diamond she's plucked from an Eastern treasure horde. High above both, ruby-red Arcturus marks the heel of the kindly shepherd Bootes, who drives the stars of spring across the sky. Orion flees, humbled, below the western horizon..."

It's all well and good, it's just not for me. I'd guess that references to "lovemaking" and related terms are actually used more often than references to the word "calendar". If you enjoy stories and myths from Greek and Roman times, with a smattering from the Celts, Germans, and other "westerners", told somewhat floridly, you'll like this.

One thing that sticks with me is the disturbing story of the Wicker Man. It, and some of the other tales, made me want to know more (how long did this go on, how wide-spread was it, who was chosen to be the victims, etc.), but I kept coming back to that word "miscellany"... it's not MEANT to be thorough.

So to sum up I'd say the book delivers what the title promises, but didn't satisfy my curiosity about the subject!

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book For A Long Wintry Night.......2005-12-21

This is actually the wife of the Amazon member. I bought this back in the summer, at the solstice. How quickly i found myself at another, albeit more starkly beautiful solstice ..... The depth of knowledge and the beauty of the prose is outstanding. As one familiar with world religions, anthropology, mythology and the like, i found this book to be a refreshing change from so much of what is currenty available through the new age/earth religion venue: this book is absolutey stunning and will pass the test of time. I brought it to work with me, and it is my companion for this year's quiet, solitary solstice. Such a balm for the spirit, and a comfort ......highly recommended.

4 out of 5 stars An interesting collection of information about our calendar.......2005-11-19

This is the second version of my review. I do not want Mr Judge to hate me. ;) I was too harsh, Mr Judge. I appreciate your feedback. I will try to improve my reviews.

In fact I do like to write and I encourage you to keep on writing and publishing. Maybe I am not the best critic in the world, but I try to be honest and fair. And as a matter of fact, I encourage EVERYONE to try new things and take risks. That is what makes life interesting. I congratulate you.

In the book, we are given many interesting stories, facts, anecdotes and opinions (yes, I leave this in, though after 18 months, I do not remember the particular item that jumped out at me - I will try to find it an update this review) about the perception and measurement of the passage of time.

As I said earlier, the writing is quite poetic moves along well.

I enjoy reading books like this and do wish the author had included a bibliography and/or footnotes. A lot of work went into his research and he should get the credit. A book setting forth information as 'history' should have some supporting documentation. My comment about 'scholastic effort' was poorly worded. I probably wrote that after grading a stack of my students research papers.

If the author had documented his book as well as he did his response to my review, I would have had nothing to complain about.

I am sure William Shakespeare, Shelby Foote and Robert Browning would love this book.
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    Spaceship...Aliens...Cover-up or Hoax? What Really Happened at Roswell?

    New witnesses! New evidence! A shocking conclusion!

    Did an extraterrestrial spacecraft really crash in the New Mexico desert in 1947? Were alien bodies found...and, if so, was there a secret autopsy? Are the recent Art Bell revelations true?

    For fifty years the mysteries of Roswell have tantalized the public. Now UFO and paranormal researcher Kal K. Korff reveals the real story. Through his exclusive access to military records, previously classified material, and real eyewitnesses, he explodes the lies and lays bare the truth. The result is a revelation powerful enough to change public opinion forever! Find out about:

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    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Good but Annoying.......2007-07-24

    Korff makes a very nice detailed destruction of the UFO myths around Roswell. He neatly skewers a lot of the best "witnesses" and his discussion of Mogul is first rate. There's almost no doubt that Mogul is what some folks saw of the wreckage. The laughable Alien Autopsy film is like shotting fish in a barrel.

    The problems with the book is how it is written. There is preciously little organization to the work. Discussions of witnesses are randomly tossed together by all appearances. The writing is certainly not top notch and at times reads like a cookbook author. Perhaps the worst flaw is the self-congratulatory tone Korff has almost throughout. The book gives the impression that the UFO "research" community is small enough that he knows most of these folks personally and he's really sticking it to them with this book. It gets to be so annoying at some points you almost wish he was wrong. The tinfoil hat types think this guy is a government disinformation agent but if he is the best the government can toss out to cover up Roswell then the government isn't competent enough to cover up a UFO for 50 years.

    Still, the book is very useful to getting the most succinct not-crazy view of Roswell out there and also one that deals with a lot of the "evidence" for the UFO crash.

    1 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money.......2007-04-20

    Too bad I can't give a "minus star" rating.

    Kal Korff's book "Roswell: What they don't want you to know," is pretty much a bashing expose of alleged lies and confusions spread, supposedly, by the many witnesses to the legendary Roswell UFO crash who have come forward over the years. He takes Jesse Marcel apart, he takes the fireman's daughter's story apart; he rips the undertaker's story to pieces; he takes Phil Corso's story apart; you name it, he bashes it to bits. He even claims to have located the origin of the "little sticks" with hieroglyphics on them" seen by several of the so-called witnesses never mind that this "find" is contradicted by his "balloon theory" as well as the fact that the military changed its story yet again, even after Korff's book.

    The problem is that, despite the fact that all the stories have been dissected by this guy apparently so effectively, there ARE still things he cannot account for, and explanations that he makes that simply don't fit his thesis. On the one hand, he claims that the Roswell base people instituted a cover up of a top secret balloon project, and on the other hand, he says that the Roswell base did not KNOW about the top secret balloon project because it was so secret! That is completely irreconcilable.

    Dealing with the crafty twisting and distorting of the work of other people that contaminates nearly everything in this book would be a labor of Hercules. (Cleaning the Augean Stables comes to mind.) For but one example, the way Korff treats the testimony of the late Brigadier General Arthur Exon provids an interesting insight into not only Korff's book, but his deviant mind. Korff writes:

    "There is no excuse for how Exon's 'testimony' is misrepresented in the Randle-Schmitt book. It is blatant fiction on the part of the authors...Randle and Schmitt were deceptive in their presentation of both Exon's recollections and his supposed 'involvement' in the Roswell affair."

    The indictment rests, as it happens, on the accusation that Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt presented Exon's remarks as if he were relating first-hand testimony, when actually he was only reporting things he'd heard from others.

    The question is, of course, what did Exon say?

    As Kal himself tells us (see p. 93), Exon talks about Roswell debris being flown to Wright-Patterson. "The boys who tested it," Exon says, "said it was very unusual....It had them pretty puzzled."

    Now, is that "first-hand", "second-hand" or what?

    The fact is that Exon, an Air Force general, is telling what he's heard about Roswell. More than this, what Exon says about the Roswell debris are the same kinds of things that many of the first-hand witnesses say! If you put any weight on Exon's testimony (as a General), the Mogul theory [the glorified weather balloon explanation offered by the Air Force in 1994] is pretty much dead in the water.

    Let's take a look at what the well-known music critic, Greg Sandow, wrote about this matter:

    Even the passage Kal quotes doesn't support his view. Here's how Kal presents it: "To read the Randle-Schmitt book, it appears that Exon corroborates the Roswell UFO recovery by providing impressive-sounding testimony that appears to be firsthand. 'We heard the material was coming to Wright Field....It was brought into our material evaluation labs. I don't know how it arrived but the boys who tested it said it was very unusual.' Exon described the material: '[Some of it] could be easily ripped or changed....there were other parts of it that were very thin but awfully strong and couldn't be dented with very heavy hammers....It was flexible to a degree,' and, according to Exon, 'some of it was flimsy and was tougher than hell and almost like foil but strong. It had them pretty puzzled.'"

    "To almost anyone reading this," Kal writes, "it would appear that...[Exon] was a firsthand source who was present and personally saw what he describes." But I don't see it that way at all. Consider these statements: "We heard the material was coming....I don't know how it arrived, but the boys who tested it said...It had them pretty puzzled." Isn't it clear that Exon isn't speaking of first hand knowledge? Who wouldn't understand that Exon didn't handle this debris himself?

    A page later in the Randle-Schmitt book comes another Exon quote, which Kal doesn't reprint: "The metal and material was unknown to anyone I talked to. Whatever they found, I never heard what the results were. A couple of guys thought it might be Russian but the overall consensus was that the pieces were from space."

    Again, it's perfectly clear that Exon didn't handle or analyze the material himself, and even that his knowledge was limited. But he appears to think he'd spoken to people who knew at least something about what the analysis had shown. How sure was he of this knowledge? Let me quote a few suggestive passages. First, an Exon quote from Randle's book: "I know [my emphasis] that...[General Ramey] along with the people out at Roswell decided to change the story while they got their act together and got the information into the Pentagon." (UFO Crash at Roswell, paperback, p. 111.) Another Exon quote from Randle: "I just know [again my emphasis] there was a top intelligence echelon represented and the President's office was represented and the Secretary of Defense's office was represented..." (He's talking about the secret UFO committee that he's sure existed; UFO Crash, p. 232.)

    And here's something Exon said on the tape, which wasn't quoted in Randle's book. Kevin asks, referring to stories we've all heard about alien corpses at Wright-Patterson: "You've heard the rumors about the little bodies, haven't you?" "Yes, I have," answers Exon. "In fact, I know people that were involved in photographing some of the residue from the New Mexico affair near Roswell." Here's something else, about how Exon knows that there were alien bodies from Roswell at Wright-Patterson: "People I have known who were involved with that" told him so. [Sandow's emphasis.]

    Look back at the quote Kal thinks is so damning: 'We heard the material was coming to Wright Field....It was brought into our material evaluation labs. I don't know how it arrived but the boys who tested it said it was very unusual.' Exon described the material: '[Some of it] could be easily ripped or changed....there were other parts of it that were very thin but awfully strong and couldn't be dented with very heavy hammers....It was flexible to a degree,' and, according to Exon, 'some of it was flimsy and was tougher than hell and almost like foil but strong. It had them pretty puzzled.'"

    Given the full context of Exon's remarks...and bearing in mind everything I've quoted from Kevin's interview with him....isn't it clear (a) that Exon certainly thought he knew quite a bit (even if not first hand) about the subjects he was quoted on, that (b) he says quite clearly that he'd talked to people who were involved first-hand, and (c) that therefore the passage Kal quotes from Kevin's book is really quite reasonable in both its tone and content? I don't think it misrepresents Exon at all. (Here's another quote from Exon, from the tape: "Most of the people you're talking to are a little bit like me. Close enough to know that there was something happening. They had no direct responsibility for any of it." Anyone who reads the complete sections on Exon from Randle's books will, I think, form exactly that impression.)"

    Kal Korff has made his career out of exposing the allegedly false, or exaggerated claims, of others. But what about ole Kal himself?

    On his website, Korff claims, among many, many other things, to have been "a key, expert witness in the O.J. Simpson murder trial CIVIL lawsuit".

    If you check the list of witnesses, from Court TV's website, you will not find Kal Korff's name. His misleading claim to have been an "expert witness" in the Simpson trial is apparently supposed to make him sound more credible.

    As Kevin Randle (Roswell Ufo Crash Update: Exposing the Military Cover-Up of the Century) reports, Kal Korff also claims to be a captain in an Israeli organization that he describes as a "`meta-organization' so there won't be some fancy building that can be targeted." He says that you can't "Google" it because the English version of the name isn't quite accurate and you need the Hebrew name. Randle asks, quite reasonably, "why not supply that as some have requested? The only things you can learn about this secret organization that Korff insists on naming only in the loose English translation takes you back to Korff driven documents. If another researcher attempted to pull off something like this, Korff would be all over him."

    In short, this book consists mainly of Korff slinging allegations, but providing no evidence to make his case. If you want to waste your money to take a look, go for it, but I think that Korff is probably already well-paid to disseminate this twisted nonsense. I'm sorry I contributed to his support even if it was a good lesson in seeing how a deviant mind operates.

    1 out of 5 stars Ho Hum.......2006-07-15

    Read Corso's The Day After Roswell and also Jim Marrs Alien Agenda after this one.

    This reads like disinformation from the 50's. For those who wish it to all go away and to not have to think any longer, this is your book folks.

    Just another voice who asks you not to look behind the curtain is all.

    Writing style was not all that great either.

    1 out of 5 stars Suspicious.......2005-05-13

    I smell a rat here. This book is obviously produced by someone who don't want the truth about the Roswell incident to come out.

    4 out of 5 stars sadly true.......2005-01-14

    This book seems like the final nail in the Roswell coffin. I too wanted to believe, but let's face it, the Roswell 'crash' is the biggest red herring in UFOland. Where was the spaceship in all of this? Where were the huge indentations that would've resulted in a crash? There were none. Where are the artefacts, bits of UFO gleaned by 'witnesses'? There are none. How a few sticks and bits of wood spread around a ranch in New Mexico got to be this huge industry is cause for concern. Basically it helps make potentially real incidents ridiculed, and I for one as a sceptical believer, would like people to get some perspective and understand that most UFO sightings / abduction claims are rubbish made by pitiful attention seekers or the mentally deluded. Far too many conmen are making far too much money out of this subject and this book seems to take a sensible approach, and for that it must be admired.

    Too bad the UFO believers writing reviews here are all foaming at the mouth claiming government conspiracy - it would seem some people see conspiracies everywhere. Too much X Files, not enough facing many facts.

    Nearly 60 years later and we're still waiting for conclusive evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial, and yet not one shred of real evidence exists. Strange that, no?

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