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Comanche County, Kansas: History & Genealogy
Bonnie and Clyde in Comanche County, Kansas On September 4, 1933, Alva Trummel was "returning in his Chevrolet car from the Sun City rodeo, and when within a mile and a half of home, he was suddenly stopped by a car which stood across the road, and in which there were three men and one woman. The men displayed a machine gun and two automatics and ordered Alva to turn over his car to them."
Alva Trummel Kidnapped (by Bonnie & Clyde), The Western Star, 8 Sept 1933.
Bill Brock Relates Story of Highway Robbery at Meade Park, The Fowler News, September 7, 1933.
List of Veterans from Comanche County, Kansas
Recent additions to this site:
History of Comanche County from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, 1912.
Comanche Steal - The Fraudulent Organization of Comanche County, Kansas by Thomas Allen McNeal from When Kansas Was Young, pages 61 - 65.
Leo Thornberry's Watermelon Patch
Raccoons, Coyotes and Watermelons
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