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04030aam a22003858i 4500 001 C1E83512F63611EE80258AC022ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240409010228 008 231115t20242024nyua b 000 0beng 010 $a 2023052918 020 $a 1510778241 020 $a 9781510778245 035 $a (OCoLC)1382526393 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d JAS $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d GZD $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20231219 100 1 $a Stannard, Brian, $e author. 245 10 $a Alcatraz ghost story : $b Roy Gardner's amazing train robberies, escapes, and lifelong love / $c Brian Stannard. 246 30 $a Roy Gardner's amazing train robberies, escapes, and lifelong love 264 1 $a New York, NY: $b Skyhorse Publishing, $c [2024] 300 $a xviii, 245 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Before the 1920s found their roar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from incarceration. Nicknamed "the Smiling Bandit," Gardner spilled no blood--except his own--as he cut a felonious path across the western United States, as the country hobbled through a recession in the aftermath of the First World War. Once imprisoned for the long term in federal prisons, including Alcatraz, the most notorious prison's second-most-notorious inmate won over some unlikely champions. Both Gardner's wife, Dollie, and a police officer who once arrested him launched extensive campaigns for Gardner's release on the vaudeville circuit, claiming a brain operation would cure his lawless ways. Was Gardner a good man who made bad decisions as the victim of injury and circumstance? Or was his charming personality merely the poker face of a scoundrel? Richly researched, drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts, Alcatraz Ghost Story explores the life of Roy Gardner in the context of his great love story and the larger backdrop of drug addiction, incarceration, and the racial and labor violence of the 1920s and 1930s"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast History--and the Woman He Loved Before the 1920s found their roar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from incarceration. Nicknamed "the Smiling Bandit," Gardner spilled no blood--except his own--as he cut a felonious path across the western United States, as the country hobbled through a recession in the aftermath of the First World War. Once imprisoned for the long term in federal prisons, including Alcatraz, the most notorious prison's second-most-notorious inmate won over some unlikely champions. Both Gardner's wife, Dollie, and a police officer who once arrested him launched extensive campaigns for Gardner's release on the vaudeville circuit, claiming a brain operation would cure his lawless ways. Was Gardner a good man who made bad decisions as the victim of injury and circumstance? Or was his charming personality merely the poker face of a scoundrel? Richly researched, drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts, Alcatraz Ghost Story explores the life of Roy Gardner in the context of his great love story and the larger backdrop of drug addiction, incarceration, and the racial and labor violence of the 1920s and 1930s"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Gardner, Roy, $d 1884 or 1886-1940. 650 0 $a Criminals $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Outlaws $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Escaped prisoners $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Stannard, Brian. $t Alcatraz ghost story $d New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing, [2024] $z 9781510778252 $w (DLC) 2023052919 941 $a 1 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20240409011523.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1E83512F63611EE80258AC022ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search