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Dexfield Park (Site) / Bonnie and Clyde shootout location.
On July 24, 1933, the Barrow Gang (Bonnie and Clyde et al), after having narrowly survived and fled a shootout with lawmen at the Red Crown Cabin Camp about seven miles southeast of Platte City, Missouri, was at Dexfield Park, an abandoned amusement park near Dexter, Iowa. After they were noticed by local citizens, it was determined that the campers were the Barrows. Surrounded by local lawmen and approximately one hundred spectators, the Barrows once again found themselves under fire. Clyde Barrow, Parker, and W.D. Jones escaped on foot [they crossed the narrow point of the stream to the north of their encampment]. Buck was shot in the back and his wife hit again in the face and eyes with flying glass. Buck Barrow [Clyde's brother] died five days later at Kings Daughters Hospital in Iowa of pneumonia after surgery.

Although Jones parted ways with the pair the next month, Barrow and Parker regrouped, and on November 22, 1933, again escaped an arrest attempt while meeting family members at an impromptu rendezvous near Sowers, Texas.

More info and good photos at these links: texashideout.tripod.com/SanDex.html
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www.dexteriowa.org/index.php?page=historical-marker