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 Raised
on the border of Indian
Territory near Coffeyville,
Kansas, the Dalton brothers
originally were on the side of
the law. Oldest brother Frank
Dalton (June 8, 1859 - November
27, 1887) was a U. S. Deputy
Marshal for the Federal Court of
Fort Smith, Arkansas, but he was
shot and killed in an ambush by
the Smith-Dixon Gang. His
younger brother Grat Dalton took
up where Frank left off,
becoming a U.S. Deputy Marshal
for the Muskogee court. Bob
Dalton was a U. S. Deputy
Marshal for the Federal Court in
Wichita, Kansas, working in and
out of the Osage Nation.
Youngest brother Emmett worked
as a member of some of his
brother's posses. Bob Dalton is buried
in the Coffeyville’s Elmwood
Cemetery.
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It was Emmett, while working as
a cowboy on the Bar X Bar Ranch
near the Pawnee Agency, who met
two of the Gang's members, Bill
Doolin and William St. Power,
alias Bill Power, alias Tom
Evans. Not much is know about
Bill Power, other than he
drifted into the Twin
Territories of Oklahoma and the
Indian Nation from Texas with a
trail herd from the Pecos.
Emmett also met future Gang
members working on the ranches
nearby. They were Charlie
Pierce, George "Bitter Creek"
Newcomb, Charlie "Black-Faced
Charlie" Bryant, and Richard
"Dick" Broadwell, alias Texas
Jack, alias John Moore.
Emmett was
sentenced to life in the state
prison at Lansing, Kansas, by Judge
J.D. McCue of the Montgomery
County District Court for second
degree murder. He spent 15 years
in prison before winning a
parole. The remaining years of
Emmett’s life were spent on the
stage, writing a book on the
family and the Raid and as a
real estate dealer in
California. He died in Los
Angeles on July 13, 1937.
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 Grat
Dalton, who had moved to
California along with brother Bill, returned to Indian
Territory, and took up were his
brother left off. Working as a
deputy he received a bullet
wound in the arm while
attempting to arrest one
suspect, and in 1889 he was
commissioned a deputy marshal
for the Muskogee court, but soon
got a bad reputation as a lawman.
He decided to go to the other
side of law and started robbing
trains. He is buried in the
Elmwood Cemetary in Coffeyville
along with his elder brother
Bob. At the time of his death,
he was 31 year old.
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 Bill
Power - ? to 1892
There is not
much known about Bill Power
other than he drifted in to the
Territories from Texas with a
trail herd from the Pecos. He was also known as Tim Evans. He is
buried in Coffeyville’s
Elmwood Cemetery next to the other gang members.
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Dick Broadwell came from a
prominent family near
Hutchinson, Kansas. At the opening
of Oklahoma Territory he staked
a claim to a homestead in the
Cowboy Flats area. He met and
fell in love with the young lady
who owned the homestead next to
his and asked her to marry him.
She agreed and persuaded him to
sell both claims and move with
her to Fort Worth, Texas, where she
disappeared with the money. He
returned to the territories and
started working on the ranches.
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