1. Gratton Hanley "Grat" Dalton was an American outlaw in the American Old West.
20 Facts About Grat Dalton
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Grat Dalton was one of three brothers in the Dalton Gang, led by his younger brother Bob Dalton.
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Grat Dalton was assigned to organize a police force in the Osage Nation, Indian Territory, and took Emmett with him as a deputy.
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Grat Dalton tried to get them food, horses, and ammunition but was caught and jailed at Fort Smith, where he had formerly worked.
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Grat Dalton returned to California to meet Emmett and Bob at their brother Bill's ranch in January 1891.
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Many years later, Littleton Grat Dalton said that his brothers, Bob and Emmett, had told him many times that they robbed that train.
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Grat Dalton had not joined the heist as he had spent all his money on drinking and gambling in Tulare, California, and did not have a horse.
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Grat Dalton discovered that the brothers were making their way to Utah to throw him off, and tracked them to the town of Ogden.
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The Grat Dalton brothers had thought that Emmett had killed the fireman.
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Grat Dalton was convicted on murder charges and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Sheriff Kay suspected Bill Grat Dalton, and arrested him and an associate, named Riley Dean.
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Bill Grat Dalton had remained in his cell and was found in the morning, playing a guitar, joking about how the boys had left him.
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Grat Dalton 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.
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Grat Dalton managed to escape, firing at the lawmen with his Winchester rifle and stealing a horse from a nearby ranch, but Riley Dean was captured.
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Grat Dalton rode to a friends near Livingston, California and stayed for several weeks before escaping back to Oklahoma with the help of his brother Cole.
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Grat Dalton arrested Bryant and took him on a train to be committed to the jail at Wichita, Kansas without a guard or notifying Marshal Grimes at Fort Smith.
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Grat Dalton opened the door to the rear platform and, while Short had his attention to the mounted men, shot him in the back.
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Grat Dalton thought Coffeyville would be an excellent opportunity for that score.
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For reasons unknown, Grat Dalton dismissed gang members "Bittercreek" Newcomb and Charley Pierce, telling them their services were no longer needed.
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In 1975 Grat Dalton was played by the actor Richard Jaeckel in the TV movie western The Last Day.