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Brothers who became members of the Dalton Gang were: Bob, Grat, Emmett, and Bill, who was the least involved. [2] After the disaster at Coffeyville in 1892, Bill later joined with Bill Doolin to form the Dalton-Doolin Gang, also known as the Wild Bunch. Their father Lewis Dalton bred and trained race horses, and bet on them, mostly unsuccessfully.
The motion picture The Cimarron Kid (1952), about the Dalton Gang, starred Audie Murphy as Bill Doolin. "The Dalton Gang" is a half-hour, 1954 episode of the American TV series Stories of the Century with Myron Healey as Bob Dalton, Fess Parker as Grat, Robert Bray as Emmett, and John Mooney as Bill Dalton.
What was known as the Dalton Gang had been dominated by several Dalton brothers, and led by Bob Dalton.Doolin, Newcomb, and Charley Pierce were also members. They took part in the botched train robbery in Adair, Oklahoma Territory, on July 15, 1892, in which two guards and two townsmen, both doctors, were wounded, one of the doctors dying the next day.
From left to right are Tim Evans, Bob Dalton, Grat Dalton and Dick Broadwell. The inset shows gang member Emmett Dalton, who survived the 23 slugs from the gunfight and served 15 years in prison.
Gratton Hanley "Grat" Dalton (March 30, 1861 – October 5, 1892) was an American outlaw in the American Old West. He was one of three brothers in the Dalton Gang, led by his younger brother Bob Dalton. Both brothers were killed during a shootout in an ill-fated raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas. Their brother Emmett Dalton survived to ...
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Shortly thereafter, Doolin became a member of the Dalton Gang. On October 5, 1892, the Dalton Gang tried to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville. It was an utter failure. Coffeyville residents and lawmen rallied in a shootout against the outlaws, resulting in four of the five gang members being killed.
Emmett Dalton (May 3, 1871 – July 13, 1937) was an American outlaw, train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West.Part of a gang that attempted to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, on October 5, 1892, he was the only member of five to survive, despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds.