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dalton brothers

1. The Daltons moved to Coffeyville, Kansas in 1886 and lived there for a short time. Coffeyville, Kansas became the
hometown of "the Dalton boys."

2. Robert Rennick Dalton (Bob)
May 13, 1869 –October 5, 1892

3. William M. Dalton (Bill)
1866–June 8, 1894
Bill Dalton became obsessed with becoming more famous than his brothers

4. Gratton Hanley "Grat" Dalton
March 30, 1861 –October 5, 1892
leader of the Dalton Gang

5. Emmett Dalton
Emmett Dalton was born in 1871 in Missouri,
the youngest in a large family.
Emmett Dalton before the Coffeyville Raid

6. Their father was Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri. He was a
saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri, when he married Adeline Younger.
By 1882, the family was living in the Indian Territory, now the state of
Oklahoma. A few years later, they had settled in Coffeyville in southeastern
Kansas
Their first robbery target was a gambling house in Silver City, New
Mexico.

7. Around 9:30 the morning of October 5, 1892
five members of the Dalton Gang (Grat
Dalton, Emmett Dalton, Bob Dalton, Bill
and Dick Broadwell) rode into the small
town of Coffeyville, Kansas.
Their objective : make outlaw history

8. The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892
The C.M. Condon Bank
«The observer called out to the men in the store that 'The bank is being
robbed!'»
David Elliott was editor of the local newspaper
Many of the townspeople gathered in
Isham's Hardware Store near the banks.
Not only did the unarmed citizens get rifles,
shotguns, and ammunition, but the store
also provided an excellent view of the two
banks and the alley where the gang had tied
their horses

9. After the battle -Bill Power, Bob Dalton,
Grat Dalton and Dick Broadwell
«Emmett boldly rode back to where
Bob Dalton was lying, and reaching
down his hand, attempted to lift his
dying brother on the horse with him. 'Its
no use,' faintly whispered the fallen
bandit, Emmett dropped from his
horse, carrying the sack containing
over twenty thousand dollars with him,
and fell near the feet of Bob, who
expired a moment thereafter." »

10. After Coffeyville

12. Silent movies
B westerns Lucky Luke
Emmett wrote an
autobiography
When the Daltons Rode
(1931)

13. resources
"The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892" EyeWitness to History,www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
(2001).
Daltondatabank,1892
http://www.daltondatabank.org/Chronicles/Emmett_Dalton.htm