52 Facts About Dalton Gang

Dalton Gang was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri, when he married Adeline Lee Younger.

Dalton Gang married and started a family, and in 1887, leased a ranch in San Luis Obispo County on the Estrella River, going into business with his wife's brother.

Dalton Gang then became a Democratic central committee chairmen in Merced County and a political committeeman near Estrella.

Father Lewis Dalton Gang eventually gambled away the family home in Belton, Missouri.

Dalton Gang brought Bob, only eighteen years old, along as a posse member.

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Dalton Gang instead offered Bob and Emmett both positions as possemen for Deputy Floyd Wilson.

When Grat Dalton Gang was released from the jail at Fort Smith, he went to his mothers in Kingfisher for several weeks.

Dalton Gang first went to visit his brother Lit near Fresno and the two talked about the trouble their younger brothers were in.

Dalton Gang figured that if they made enough money train robbing they could then escape to South America.

Some years later, Lit Dalton Gang asserted that Bob and Emmett had told him many times that they had robbed the train.

Dalton Gang quickly put out the car lights, locked all the doors and windows and didn't answer anyone.

At 10pm, Lit Dalton Gang was talking to someone in the Reception Saloon in Fresno when news of the robbery at Alila was written on the bar room blackboard next to results of baseball games and horseraces.

Dalton Gang told Kay that her husband wouldn't be home until late, but that they would be welcome to stay the night.

Dalton Gang pulled the saddle out of the manure pile and noticed it had a piece of wood broken from the stirrup.

Dalton Gang took out the piece of hardwood he had found at the spring near Cottonwood pass and noticed it was a perfect match.

Dalton Gang discovered that there were five Dalton brothers in the area, and three of them were heavy drinkers and gamblers well known in local saloons.

Dalton Gang then received a telegram from Tulare and learned that three men had been gambling and following the Southern Pacific pay car from Traver to Delano for three days before the robbery.

Dalton Gang met them outside while Bob and Emmett climbed in the trap door they had built to the attic in the ceiling of a closet.

Dalton Gang was convinced by Grat's story, along with what he already knew, that Grat was not at the scene of the robbery.

The Dalton Gang's couldn't sell their horses in Ludlow and they didn't have enough money for all three of them to take the train to Indian territory, so Bill took the train back to Paso Robles while Bob and Emmett took the train to Salt Lake where they would meet Cole.

Dalton Gang denied any wrongdoing by her sons, stating that they were in fact lawmen, and told Kay they had gone to Guthrie if he wanted to talk with them.

Dalton Gang then traveled to Visalia with her two daughters, as well as her sons Ben, Cole, Lit and Bill, for Grat's trial.

Dalton Gang offered to admit this in court if Grat and Bill told the true story of the robbery.

Dalton Gang then went to Fresno to check on Lit and Cole Dalton, and was convinced of the same.

Dalton Gang then threw the butt of his winchester to the ground and the two nervously laughed at each other.

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Dalton Gang soon discovered a worn place in the carpet and found a trap door hidden underneath.

Dalton Gang had Bill lift the carpet and open the trap door and, instead of Bob, they discovered a man named Riley Dean, a saloon hanger-on from Visalia and Traver.

Dalton Gang was then taken back to Visalia to await his trial for the Alila robbery.

Dalton Gang arrested Bryant and took him on a train to be committed to the jail at Wichita, Kansas, without notifying Marshal Grimes at Fort Smith.

Dalton Gang then put the baggage man in charge of Bryant and gave him his revolver.

Dalton Gang then ordered the baggageman to ignore him and to go back to his work.

Dalton Gang decided to watch the outside of the place at night to see if he could catch in the act whoever was trying to open the grating.

Dalton Gang told Kay that Grat's camp was on a steep mountain in the Sierra Nevada, close to the Kings River and about fifteen miles northeast of Sanger, but that they would never find the place.

Dalton Gang said that Grat was accompanied by Riley Dean, the man who had been arrested with Bill for the Ceres robbery, as well as a dog.

Dalton Gang then saw Grat begin to approach over the hill and planned to wait until he was thirty feet from him before making an arrest.

Dalton Gang began walking behind his plow when he felt a rifle poke him in the ribs.

Dalton Gang then sold the lease to his ranch in San Luis Obispo County, moved his family to his wife's parents in Livingston, California, and left for Kingfisher.

Bill Dalton Gang came into the hotel lobby and began to speak to deputy Yoes in a loud voice, so everyone around them could hear.

Dalton Gang had gone to school at Robbins Corners near Coffeyville, and knew several hundred people in town.

Dalton Gang was afraid some of his friends would be hurt, but Bob assured him there would not be any shooting, and that it would all be over before anyone knew what happened.

Dalton Gang then decided the sack bag was too heavy to carry, and ordered the silver taken out, then stashed what cash he could fit into his coat pockets.

Dalton Gang spotted Bob just as he had killed Brown and aimed his rifle at him from behind the store window.

Dalton Gang was given a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, of which he served 14 years before being pardoned.

Dalton Gang moved to Hollywood, California, and became a real estate agent, author, and actor, and died in 1937 at age 66.

Years after the robberies and his release from prison, Emmett Dalton said that the relentless pressure put on them by Deputy US Marshal Heck Thomas as he hunted for them was a key factor in his gang's decision to commit the robberies.

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Brothers Lit and Bill Dalton Gang were visiting their mother, and Doolin proposed that they join his group to avenge their brothers.

Bill Dalton Gang agreed to join them and soon took part in several robberies, but Lit refused in disgust.

Dalton Gang took part in several robberies with the Wild Bunch, including a gun battle on September 1,1893, at Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory, where three deputy US marshals were killed.

Lit, the last surviving Dalton Gang brother, responded to a book written by his brother Emmett after the latter's death.

Dalton Gang asked Latta not to publish the information until after his death.

Chris Evans and Grat Dalton Gang had become friends while working together in Tulare County during the summer of 1888, at the Grangers Bank of California's wheat warehouses in Tipton and Pixley.

Dalton Gang claimed that Bob, Grat, and Emmett had all made at least two trips to Bill's ranch in California during that time and that at least one of them would show up to his saloon to get a gallon demijohn full of whiskey to bring back to the rest.