Texas Ranger
The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde

A very well researched book about a true lawman hero who survived over 50 gunfights. In the movie, Bonnie and Clyde, he was said to have been captured by the Barrow Gang and put in a rowboat in handcuffs but that never occurred and his widow successfully sued the studio for that slanderous lie. Anoth......more

Frank Hamer certainly had an interesting life. He started riding a horse chasing cattle rustlers, opposed the KKK, spent the Prohibition fighting bootleggers, worked as a constable or sheriff in various cities and hunted down and killed Bonnie and Clyde. He was not always a Ranger because the fundin......more

What a great book. This biography of the legendary Frank Hamer was really good. Hamer is known as the lawman that killed Bonnie and Clyde, but I had no idea of his other exploits that includes much of the history of the Texas Rangers though the turn of the century into the 1930's. But it dives deeper......more

The life of Texas Ranger legend Frank Hamer has been taken on before, but John Boessenecker has presented the most definitive account of a man who embodied American law enforcement at its foundations. Written from such a perspective it still begs a few questions, largely unanswerable at this time, r......more

Very fascinating and shines light on a man who stood for what he believes to be right.......more