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The Dalton Gang


But Bob, Grat, and Emmett Dalton started out wearing the tin star of a lawman. Their older brother, Frank Dalton, became a deputy marshal in 1884 and was shot to death while trying to arrest three bootleggers in 1887. Grat and Bob Dalton became deputy marshals in the late 1880's, and Emmett Dalton worked for Bob Dalton as a guard. Numerous accounts say the three Dalton boys leaned toward a life of crime even while working as lawmen. By the 1890's they were selling liquor and stealing horses in Indian Territory, which is now Oklahoma. By 1892 their gang had committed a few train robberies, including one in which a man was shot and killed. (3).
             Bill Dalton was supposedly "the smartest of the second batch, a con artist. He was the worst of the five"("Family History" 2).
             William St. Power, alias Bill Powers, alias Tom Evans, drifted in to Territories from Texas with a trail herd from the Pecos. Bill Doolin was recruited by Emmett Dalton while working at the Bar X Bar Ranch near the Pawnee Agency. Charlie Pierce fled to the Indian Nation to avoid trouble in Missouri, and settled in Pawnee country. He spent time in the Fort Smith jail for whiskey peddling. George Newcomb, a.k.a. Bitter Creek Newcomb, at age twelve he began working for C.C. Slaughter on the Long S Ranch in Texas. He later drifted into the territories. Little is known about Charlie Bryant who hailed from Wise County, Texas other than he had a black mark on his cheek that earned him the nickname Black-Faced Charlie. Richard Broadwell came from a prominent family from Kansas. After staking a claim in the Cowboy Flats area he meet and married a young lady who had staked a claim next to him. She later persuaded him to sell both claims and move to Fort Worth, TX. were she disappeared with the money. He returned to the territories to began work on the ranches.
             After the gang discussed their life of crime they decided one last robbery was in order to gain enough money to leave the country.


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