{"product_id":"texas-ranger-the-epic-life-of-frank-hamer-the-man-who-killed-bonnie-and-clyde-9781250069986","title":"Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer  the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times bestseller!  Frank Hamer  last of the old breed of Texas Rangers  has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his proper place alongside such fabled lawmen as Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. Here is a grand adventure story  told with grace and authority by a master historian of American law enforcement. Frank Hamer can rest easy as readers will finally learn the truth behind his amazing career  spanning the end of the Wild West through the bloody days of the gangsters. --Paul Andrew Hutton  author of The Apache Wars  To most Americans  Frank Hamer is known only as the villain of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Now  in Texas Ranger  historian John Boessenecker sets out to restore Hamers good name and prove that he was  in fact  a classic American hero.  From the horseback days of the Old West through the gangster days of the 1930s  Hamer stood on the front lines of some of the most important and exciting periods in American history. He participated in the Bandit War of 1915  survived the climactic gunfight in the last blood feud of the Old West  battled the Mexican Revolutions spillover across the border  protected African Americans from lynch mobs and the Ku Klux Klan  and ran down gangsters  bootleggers  and Communists. When at last his career came to an end  it was only when he ran up against another legendary Texan: Lyndon B. Johnson.  Written by one of the most acclaimed historians of the Old West  Texas Ranger is the first biography to tell the full story of this near-mythic lawman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280075841589,"sku":"ByrdShop_125006998X","price":41.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781250069986.jpg?v=1780619438","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/texas-ranger-the-epic-life-of-frank-hamer-the-man-who-killed-bonnie-and-clyde-9781250069986","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}