Being a museum dedicated to law enforcement, a couple of the guns used to shoot Bonnie and Clyde are on display too. While we were expolring the web, swept up with Bonnie & Clyde mania, we discovered a fabulous interactive map made by MyReadingMapped that chronicles the duo's crime spree from 1032-34. Town Sagas Today, Boots is happy to talk about what he knows with anyone who stops in the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum. More than 20,000 people attended the funeral of Bonnie Parker at Fishtrap Cemetery. But there is so much more to the story. . Explore it with your students and show them another way GIS can bring history to life and add context to the stories they read or movies they watch. Thinking for yourself is what rebellion is all about. They were bad folks who robbed their way across Texas. The gang ran as far west as Wellington, Texas, in the Panhandle, and as far north as Michigan to avoid the law. This was just a month before they were finally brought down by the law once and for all in Louisiana. But what is the real story behind Bonnie a girl from Cement City, Texas, a small industrial town three miles west of Dallas and Clyde a young man of 5-foot-6 with dark, wavy hair and tattoos on his arms that included a heart-dagger and the letters U.S.N. from a failed attempt to enter the Navy as a teenager? The cemetery does have gates, and you may want to check with the caretakers before you pay your respects. There are two monuments here. I tried to surmise where exactly the officers laid in waiting, and where exactly the car might have crashed at 9:15AM. Clyde Barrow's still-standing home in West Dallas represents more than No individual heist got them more than $1500, and most were much less. This post is part of a series on my six state Southern USA road trip. The funeral for Clyde drew the attention of thousands of onlookers who came hoping to catch a glimpse of the infamous criminal's casket. Also in 1926, just shy of her sixteenth birthday, Texas high school student Bonnie Parker would drop out of school to marry her classmate, Roy Thornton. Bonnie and Clyde are both buried in Dallas, although in separate cemeteries per Bonnies moms wishes. It's Moss's lack of experience as a getaway driver that scuppers the otherwise . Bonnie and Clyde, aided by a rotating group of accomplices, cut a swath through the US, using and even being photographed in front of a Route 66 highway shield. Bonnie and Clyde Locations Table. Bonnie and Clyde never went for the large scores. "He remembers pieces of flesh and a tooth still lodged inside" EW! Bonnie and Clyde nearly nabbed in Gregg County (April 2019) Bonnie and Clyde had plenty of chances to surrender before they were killed. This road trip will take you from Oklahoma through Texas to Louisiana, seeing everything from jails they spent time in, to their burial plots and even museums featuring real Bonnie and Clyde artifacts.