Pretty Boy

The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

By: Michael Wallis

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Paperback | 6 June 2011 | Edition Number 1

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From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America.

Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.

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"Wallis brings the legendary Robin Hood of the Great Depression alive-and he proves to be a fascinating fellow." -- Tony Hillerman

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The Conkle Farm Near Clarkson, Ohio	p. xiii
1904-1914 Charley
Child of Aquarius	p. 3
The Floyds	p. 8
Georgia Roots	p. 12
Baptism by Fire	p. 19
Adairsville, Georgia	p. 32
Sequoyah County	p. 37
Outlaw Ghosts	p. 45
King Cotton	p. 55
Heroes	p. 60
America's Robin Hood	p. 67
1914-1925 Choc
Moonshine	p. 81
Akins, Oklahoma	p. 90
Over There	p. 100
Wanderlust	p. 113
Bootleg Harvest	p. 125
One Step Over the Line	p. 140
Star Light, Star Bright	p. 155
Ruby	p. 172
The St. Louis Blues	p. 181
1925-1934 Pretty Boy
The Pen	p. 197
Tom's Town	p. 213
The Walls Come Tumbling Down	p. 231
Whirlwind	p. 247
Dog Days	p. 267
On the Scout	p. 287
The Phantom Terror	p. 309
The Midnight Rambler	p. 333
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?	p. 358
The Summer of '33	p. 384
The Massacre	p. 406
Trail's End	p. 425
Epilogue: Sallisaw, Oklahoma	p. 454
Select Bibliography and Source Notes	p. 475
Acknowledgments	p. 485
Index	p. 493
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