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	• Depression Desperado: The Chronicle of Raymond Hamilton Sid Underwood Eakin Press, 1995 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Depression Desperado is Definitive

Sid Underwood has written an extremely in-depth account of the Gentleman Bandit. Underwood has traced the history of Hamilton and his cohorts, including Bonnie & Clyde, as well as interviewed many people who have since passed away that knew Bonnie & Clyde, including relatives. Besides giving very detailed accounts pulled from records and the interviews, the book is filled with some great photos. Depression Desperado is both historical and entertaining.

Oklahoma's Depression Outlaw

Sid Underwood has written a very good and well deserved account of the life of Oklahoma's depression era bandit, who has previously been overshadowed by Bonnie and Clyde. True, Raymond Hamilton ran with Bonnie and Clyde, but his crimes were extreme and his life ended in prison. Underwood's book is very readable and will last as a true crime classic.

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Lots of true action-reads like a true crime magazine article.

this book is an excellent one about the car stealing bank robbers of the midwest during the depression era.Ray Hamilton probably would have been as famous as clyde barrow if his girlfriend had been better looking and wrote poetry to the newspapers,even if her poetry was like Bonnie Parkers'-the type you observe on gas station restroom walls.Somehow depression era thieves almost always get our sympathy,and while you might not be entirely regretful when Ray takes his seat on "ol sparky,"you could at least wish he would have stayed put in prison instead of escaping so many times.This guy escaped from different prisons so many times i was loosing track in the book.He always tried to avoid any type of gunplay if he could,not like his "buddy"?,Clyde Barrow. Ray tries to come off as a John Dillinger,same smooth style of bank robbery. Barrow sort of comes off as a Baby Face Nelson type,quick on the trigger and probably a sadist as well. It was interesting to note that Ray often recruited for his "jobs"the residents of Depression Era hoboe camps,indeed he stayed there himself many times.there was alot of unemployed desperate people there ripe for any opportunity to make some real money or(depart from the world in a hailof bullets.)Of course Ray liked to keep a suitcase with a nice dress suit with him,ready to change skin like a chameleon.When he finally takes his place on the chair,he wants everyone to know,"I never killed anyone".from reading the book i believe he studiously tried to avoid gunplay.The book also shows well how the life of a fugitive is so expensive with different pay-offs to safe houses,etc. so if anyone out there is looking for Hamilton's unrecovered stolen loot,I can say from reading this book,it was spent before Hamilton got his 6 billion amps.Not only that but Hamilton was probably robbing banks to pay his fugitive bills.If only his girlfriend hadn't had such a flat face,who knows where he could have gone!

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Giving Raymond His Due

Excellent, highly readable, well documented biography of Raymond Hamilton, a colorful Texas bank robber of the 1930's. Hamilton is chiefly remembered today as a sometime accomplice of Clyde Barrow but his own criminal career is equally interesting and far more spectacular.

Raymond Hamilton, a pal of Bonnie and Clyde was one of the best known desperadoes of the 1930's. His 1934 escape from the Texas State Prison in Huntsville Texas made the front page of the New York Times. This book chronicles Hamilton's life from humble beginnings in Schulter Oklahoma to an early demise at the age of 21 in the Texas death house.

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