Clyde Champion Barrow
Clyde Barrow was only a year older than his soon to be lover, born in the year 1909 in Ellis County, Texas. He was the fifth child of Henry Basil Barrow and Cumie Talitha Walker, who had seven children in total. The family moved to Dallas as part of a migration pattern that urged rural area workers into city slums. West Dallas became his new home in the 1920s, and soon, he'd meet a very special lady...
A Rough Start
The Barrow family lived in an overturned wagon for months until they saved up enough to buy a tent for the family. Clyde got his first arrest in 1926 when he was just seventeen. He had failed to return a rental car on time. After that, the arrests became more frequent, like when he and brother Buck stole turkeys to feed their family. He tried normal jobs, but those didn't last as long as his run-ins with the law...
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