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Bonnie and Clyde visit Collingsworth County remembered
Payton Kane recounts Gladys Cartwright Cartwrights family sheltered Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after a Red River plunge in 1933. The account details the injured Bonnie and Buck Barrow, the Pritchards aiding them, a river wreck, gunfire, a jail break, and the eventual deaths of Bonnie and Clyde in 1934, with later reminiscences from Mrs. Cartwright.
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Gladys Cartwright
Mrs. Cartwright
Collingsworth County
Collingsworth
Bonnie and Clyde
Red River
Collingsworth ‘County
Sam Pritchard
Pritchards
Pritchard
Bonnie
Alonzo Cartwright
Wellington
Bonnie Parker
Clyde Bar
Row
Buck Barrow
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Barrow Brothers
Cartwright
Barrow
Clyde Barrow
George Corry
Paul Hardy
Alonzo
Gladys
Corry
Erick
Raymond Hamilton
Dallas
Hamilton
Hardy
Sayre
Madill
Arcadia
Louisiana
Ivy “Buck” Barrow
Joplin
Missouri
Dexter
Iowa
Raymond