In 1931 Emmett Breen built Red Crown Tavern and Tourist Cabins west of here. On July 19, 1933, Platte County Sheriff Holt Coffey led a coalition of lawmen from the Platte County Sheriff's Office, Missouri Highway Patrol, and the Jackson County Sheriff's Office in an attempt to capture fugitives Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, Buck Barrow, Blanche Barrow, and W.D. Jones, who had rented the two cabins. Thirteen lawmen surrounded them, but the gang shot their way out and escaped. Buck Barrow was mortally wounded and Blanche's eyes were injured. Sheriff Coffey and two locals were also wounded.
