1. Marvin Ivan "Buck" Barrow was a member of the Barrow Gang.
22 Facts About Buck Barrow
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Buck Barrow was the older brother of the gang's leader, Clyde Barrow.
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Marvin Ivan "Buck" Barrow was born in Jones Prairie, Marion County, Texas, the third child of Henry and Cumie Barrow.
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Buck Barrow ceased attending school around age 8 or 9 and enjoyed fishing and hunting instead.
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At 18 or 19, Buck Barrow went to Dallas, ostensibly to work for his brother repairing cars, but he quickly became part of the West Dallas petty-criminal underworld.
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Buck Barrow married twice and divorced twice during this time and had three children by those marriages.
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Buck Barrow took the rap for himself and his brother and went to jail for a week.
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The turkey adventure was an ironic joke to them; Buck Barrow was making ends meet by stealing automobiles in cities all over Texas and selling them for a comfortable $100 or so to fences out of state.
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On November 11,1929, Buck Barrow met Blanche Caldwell in West Dallas, an unincorporated part of Dallas County.
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On November 29,1929, several days after meeting Blanche, Buck Barrow was shot and captured following a burglary in Denton, Texas.
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Buck Barrow was tried, convicted, and sentenced to four years in the Texas State Prison System.
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On March 8,1930, Buck Barrow escaped from the Ferguson Prison Farm near Midway, Texas.
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Buck Barrow simply walked out of the prison, stole a guard's car, and drove to his parents' place in West Dallas, where Blanche was living.
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The notion that Blanche did not know until later that Buck was an escaped convict was fabricated by the Barrow family and Blanche herself, as a means of convincing Missouri State authorities to reduce her prison sentence following her capture in July 1933.
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On July 3,1931, Blanche and Buck Barrow were married in Oklahoma.
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On July 19,1933, Buck Barrow was mortally wounded in the head by Capt.
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Buck Barrow was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison.
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Buck Barrow was taken to King's Daughters Hospital in Perry, Iowa.
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Buck Barrow's doctors commented in their report on how clean Buck's head wound was, given the circumstances.
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Buck Barrow died at 2 pm on Saturday, July 29,1933.
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Henry and Cumie Barrow delayed buying a gravestone for Buck.
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Buck Barrow's mother gave the stonecutters their sister Nell's birth year for him by accident.