Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, most well-known for helping lead the search for infamous gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, is not easily remembered in brief, his great nephew said Sunday. “One of ...
TEXAS RANGER: THE EPIC LIFE OF FRANK HAMER, THE MAN WHO KILLED BONNIE AND CLYDE By John Boessenecker St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunn Books, $29.99, 514 pages Sam Houston, a beloved founding father of ...
With the Ranger force itself coming under increasing scrutiny for some of its tactics, Hamer feared it would become a political tool for the Fergusons. Hamer had a reputation for loyalty and honesty, ...
Most described Hamer as the Ranger captain who had killed Bonnie and Clyde—though he had not been a Ranger at the time—and few recalled Sherman. In 2003 the Texas Ranger Dispatch, the publication of ...