Minneapolis author publishes book on Kansas bank heists

Minneapolis author publishes book on Kansas bank heists
In his new book, Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters, Minneapolis author Rod Beemer writes about some of the more colorful bank heists and robbers in Kansas history. (Photo credit – Tom Dorsey)

By GARY DEMUTH Salina Journal | Dec 14, 2015

SOON AFTER ROBBING the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen in a gun battle.

However, McCurdy wasn’t buried for another 66 years.

It seems that when McCurdy was embalmed, the undertaker added arsenic to the embalming fluids, which perfectly preserved the ex-outlaw for decades to come.

When the body wasn’t claimed after six months, the undertaker decided to use McCurdy as an advertising tool. It seemed McCurdy’s body could be stood upright even while bereft of life, so he was redressed and a rifle was put in his hands. After being placed in the corner of the mortuary, he soon created local interest as the “Embalmed Bandit.”

As the years passed, McCurdy moved on to become an attraction at a traveling carnival show, a macabre place called the Museum of Crime, at the famed Hollywood Wax Museum and in a fun house in Long Beach, Calif.

When the fun house closed and was leased to Universal Television Studios, McCurdy made his TV debut in an episode of the popular 1970s show “The Six Million Dollar Man.”

Finally, someone discovered that McCurdy was not a wax dummy after all, but a perfectly pickled corpse. Still, no one came forward to claim the body. Finally, a group of western historians from Oklahoma paid for McCurdy’s burial, 66 years after his exit from the Earth.

“They put concrete on top of him so no one could move him again,” said Rod Beemer, author of the new book Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters.

McCurdy’s afterlife journey fascinated Beemer, who spent more than a year researching tales such as McCurdy’s and that of other Kansas bank robberies and the colorful outlaws who committed them.

The book was published in early December by The History Press and retails for $21.99.

Get it now for only $17.75

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NOTORIOUS KANSAS BANK HEISTS
Gunslingers to Gangsters
by Rod Beemer
Beemer will sign copies of his book from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Books-A-Million in the Salina Central Mall. Books will be available for purchase at the store.

A former Bennington resident who now lives in Minneapolis, Beemer has published numerous historical articles and 12 nonfiction works, including his 2006 book on the history of weather disasters on the Great Plains, The Deadliest Woman in the West: Mother Nature on the Prairies and Plains 1800-1900.

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THE DEADLIEST WOMAN IN THE WEST
Mother Nature on the Prairies & Plains 1800–1900
by Rod Beemer
The idea of writing about Kansas bank heists was formed after Beemer talked to a elderly man in Marshall County in northeast Kansas about a 19th century bank robbery in that area.

“If you want to know about history, then you talk to old-timers,” Beemer said. “We talked about a bank robbery up there, and that started the wheels turning. I thought there might be some other good stories out there.”

Beemer signed a contract with History Press in 2013 and spent the next year researching the book, traveling to historic sites and utilizing the knowledge and resources of local historical societies.

“They’re some of the greatest people in the world,” he said. “They will do a lot of work for you.”

Beemer’s book covers the period between Kansas statehood in 1861 to World War II, what he called “the outlaw era through the gangster era.”

“In many cases, bank robbers became folk heroes.”

“The Great Plains were a hotbed for bank robberies because of how spread out the towns were and the lack of law enforcement in the areas,” he said. “Also, banks had a bad name to begin with, and people distrusted them. In many cases, bank robbers became folk heroes.”

The book is divided into thematic chapters with titles such as: “The Strange and the Bizarre,” “Wrong Career Choices,” “Amateur Yeggs and Unsolved Robberies,” “The Deadliest Heists,” and “Fighting Back: Citizens, Bankers and Vigilantes.”

Stories covered in the book include:

  • The famous Coffeyville bank robbery, in which the noted but poor-planning Dalton Gang tried to rob two banks at the same time. The banks had big picture windows through which the town’s citizenry could see a robbery clearly taking place. After arming themselves, the citizens engaged the Daltons in a ferocious shoot-out. They killed all the outlaws except Emmett Dalton, who lived to write his memoirs.
  • The famed bank robbers and lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow did not rob any Kansas banks together, but apparently Clyde did rob a Lawrence bank. Beemer said the only way historians found out about the robbery, which was not reported in any newspapers of the era, was through Clyde’s accomplice Ralph Fults, who later reformed and preached against lawlessness.
  • Nearly 4,000 known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace, many of them organized by the Kansas Bankers’ Association. One Winfield-based group called the Aerial Sheriffs used an airplane equipped with a .50 caliber machine gun to hunt fugitives.

“I didn’t realize we had vigilantes in every county,” Beemer said. “Unlike today, vigilantes back then were trained and many were deputized to operate within the law.”

Beemer had so much fun writing Notorious Kansas Bank Heists that he’s thinking of writing a companion book to be called “Livestock Rustling” which he said will cover everything from cattle rustlers to chicken thieves.

“Anybody who’s a real writer never lacks material to write about,” he said. “There’s so much material out there.”

Reposted from the Monday, December 14, 2015, edition of the Salina Journal. Read the original article on salina.com.. (Content contains minor formatting edits made by Beemer Books.) Reporter Gary Demuth can be reached at 822-1405 or by email at .

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