Day 29 - The Newton Boys

Back on May 24, I wrote about going to the little "ghost" town of Cottonwood on my way back from Haskell and learning that the Newton's of Outlaw gang fame had grown up there.  Last night Bill found a movie made of the Newton Gang and we watched it.  It was made in 1999 and featured a young Matthew McConaughey and was really good.  Don't know how true to history the movie was, but at the end it did have the interview of one of the Newton boys on the show with Johnny Carson and that was a hoot and also one other of the Newton brothers being interviewed.  They all went to prison but all but one lived to die a natural death at a very old age in Uvalde, Texas.  I would recommend the movie because it does have some funny scenes in it, and has the famous railroad robbery where they scored $1.3 million, much of which has never been recovered although they did go to prison for the robbery.  And then there's Matthew!