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William Doolin (1858–August 24, 1896) was an American bandit outlaw and founder of the Wild Bunch, sometimes known as the Doolin-Dalton Gang.Like the earlier Dalton Gang alone, it specialized in robbing banks, trains, and stagecoaches in Arkansas, Kansas, Indiana, and Oklahoma during the 1890s.
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.
The Doolins of Oklahoma is a 1949 American Western film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Randolph Scott, George Macready and Louise Allbritton. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures . Plot
The Battle of Ingalls was a gunfight on September 1, 1893 between United States Marshals and the Doolin-Dalton Gang, during the closing years of the Old West era, in Ingalls, Oklahoma. [1] [2] The Doolin-Dalton Gang had been involved in a number of train robberies and bank robberies, beginning around 1891.
Circa 1892, he drifted into the Oklahoma Territory, where he met Bill Doolin. The Wild Bunch held its origins in the Dalton Gang, of which Newcomb, Doolin, and Charley Pierce were 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 ...
Randolph Scott himself plays Bill Doolin in the film The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949), in which he is depicted as a reluctant outlaw forced into a leadership role by circumstances after the Coffeyville raid. The motion picture The Cimarron Kid (1952), about the Dalton Gang, starred Audie Murphy as Bill Doolin.
Roy Daugherty, also known as Arkansas Tom Jones, (1870 – August 16, 1924) was an American outlaw of the Old West, and a member of the Wild Bunch gang, led by Bill Doolin. He was the longest-lived, as well as the last surviving member of the gang. Born into a staunchly religious family in Missouri, his two brothers became preachers.
Oliver Yantis, known as Oliver "Ol" Yantis (1869—November 30, 1892) was an American outlaw of the Old West, best known for being a member of the Doolin Dalton Gang. Yantis was born in Kentucky, and worked as a cotton farmer near what was then Orland, Oklahoma Territory until he met outlaws Bill Doolin and George "Bittercreek" Newcomb.