
We're Dead, Come On In
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A true crime account of a mass shooting by gangster brothers which resulted in the deaths of six police officers in Depression-era Missouri. "In all the annals of preservation of the peace there is no story that runs more gallantly than this." - Springfield Leader, January 4, 1932 As dusk fell on a bitterly cold night during the Great Depression, a posse of ten local lawmen approached two brothers holed up in an isolated Missouri farmhouse. Minutes later, six officers were dead, three were wounded, and the outlaws had escaped. After a wild car chase through Oklahoma and across Texas, police finally surrounded Harry and Jennings Young in their Houston hideout. The brutal killings attracted the national press (at first Pretty Boy Floyd was rumored to be involved) and the "carnival of carnage" that became known as the Young Brothers Massacre represented the highest number of law enforcement officers killed on a single day until September 11, 2001. Even in the hardscrabble Ozarks, a region historically known for frontier justice and vigilante activity, these crimes caused a sensation, and the Young brothers briefly joined the ranks of infamy with Bonnie and Clyde and other famous outlaws. Author Bruce Davis, a third-generation Methodist minister from Springfield, Missouri, became fascinated with this forgotten case after noticing a memorial to the six fallen police officers in his local police station. He has devoted this account, his first book, to telling the whole story and honoring the brave lawmen who died in their attempts to exact justice.
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- Intro
- Front Cover
- Preface
- The Players
- Part I
- Chapter One: Horror Show
- Chapter Two: Stolen Cars
- Chapter Three: Aux Arcs
- Chapter Four: Oklahoma
- Chapter Five: White Hats Soaked in Blood
- Chapter Six: The Queen City of the Ozarks
- Chapter Seven: Brothers in Crime
- Chapter Eight: The Republic Scuffle
- Chapter Nine: Strong Cigars
- Chapter Ten: Jailbreak
- Chapter Eleven: The Dying Year
- Part II
- Chapter Twelve: Manhunt
- Chapter Thirteen: Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Chapter Fourteen: The Concrete Highway
- Chapter Fifteen: Monday Mourning
- Chapter Sixteen: The Battle of Walker Avenue
- Chapter Seventeen: Extra! Extra!
- Chapter Eighteen: Cleaning Up
- Chapter Nineteen: First Person
- Chapter Twenty: Criminology
- Chapter Twenty-one: The Last Ride of the Young Brothers
- Chapter Twenty-two: Augusta Houser's Blues
- Chapter Twenty-three: Housepainting
- Notes
- Bibliography
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