Volume 17 , Issue 33

NW Okie's Journey

As we search the archives for information to who, what and why of the nineteenth century outlaw gang infamously known as the Dalton gang, we found in "The Pittsburgh Daily Headlight," dated Thursday, 6 October 1892, where Emmet Dalton confessed and told the story of the bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas. Emmett claimed he was forced along, and that his two elder brothers had a crude against Coffeyville and wanted to ill people. They were also full cousins of the Younger outlaws.

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! Who were the Dalton gang of the late nineteenth century? How did the career of the gang get started?

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100 Years Ago - 22 Sept. 1915, Wednesday

One hundred years ago, 22 September 1915, Wednesday, The Daily Ardmoreite reported on its front page: "Automobile Races Here Next Week" and "Sleeper To Oklahoma City During Fair." Santa Fe was to give Ardmore people sleeper service between Ardmore and Oklahoma City.

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Dalton Gang Cleanly Wiped Out (1892)

The Dalton gang was reported, cleanly wiped out in Coffeyville, Kansas, was written up in "The Pittsburgh Daily Headlight," in Pittsburgh, Kansas, Thursday, 6 October 1892, page one. It gave the details of the great bandit raid at Coffeyville, Kansas. The remarkable shooting of a livery stable keeper, and the only desperado that escaped said to be badly wounded.

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(1891) Train Robbery

It was in The Oskaloosa Independent, in Oskaloosa, Kansas, Saturday, 16 May 1891, page one that we found this news article concerning a "Train Robbery," of a Santa Fe Train held up and robbed in Oklahoma. The Notorious Dalton Gang were the robbers. Officers were in hot pursuit.

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Rise & Fall of the Dalton Gang

We all know there was a streak of Younger blood in the Dalton veins, and that the Youngers had achieved a great deal of outlaw notoriety. But did you know that Louis and Adeline Dalton's family of boys and girls also bore the blood and breeding of many generations of honest, industrious people?

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The Capture of the Dalton Gang

It was in "The Topeka Daily Capital," out of Topeka, Kansas, Sunday, 24 May 1891, that we found this news article concerning the Dalton gang which read, "Captured!" The Wharton Train Robbers Captured, after an exciting chase, in the Indian Territory. The Desperate Robbers were driven to a cave and forced to surrender, after an obstinate and bloody battle. One of the Daltons was killed, and a soldier wounded during the interchange of shots with the officers.

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