Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod. A show about the past, rediscovered.

It was April of 1934. The multi-state crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde ended in an ambush on a winding country road in Louisiana.

The inevitable end, retribution.

Here is Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who died as they lived by the gun.

The man who finally hunted them down was Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, a legendary lawman from

the Wild West, a cold-blooded killer with a badge.

He was absolutely determined every time he tracked somebody to catch him or her.

And he was ready always to bring things to a fatal conclusion.

When he was a captain with the Rangers, he used to tell

his troops, the best way to enforce the law is with a slug in the gut, and he didn't mean a punch.

That's Jeff Gwynn, a writer in Texas, and the author of Go Down Together, the true

untold story of Bonnie and Clyde.

We talk to him on Skype.

The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, Depression Air Outlaw Lovers on the Run,

has been romanticized for decades in books and on screen,

including the 1967 hit film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Faye Dunaway and

Warren Beatty.

But Frank Hamer's life and story has largely been forgotten.

Now, a new Netflix film called The Highway Men tells for the first time the story from Hamer's point

of view. Kevin Costner plays Hamer. Woody Harrelson plays his partner, Manny Galt. It's a classic

tough guy story that stretches the truth here and there, but generally gets the characters,

especially Hamer,

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