The Dalton Gang, sometimes called the Dalton Brothers Gang, has about nine semi-regular members. On that fateful day in 1892 included brothers Bob Emmett and Grat Dalton, Bill Powers, and Dick Broadwell. A sixth rider is believed to have been intended but one story goes that a limping horse took him out of play before reaching Kansas. This "sixth man" will be a subject of vast theories both sublime and ridiculous over the years.
Whoever that last rider might have been, luck was on his or her side, because by days end only one man survived. Emmett Dalton was so badly wounded it was believed he would not live. He did, however, and spent some time in prison.
An on-again-off-again member of the Dalton gang had been Bill Doolin and he rose up in the chaos to gather together a new gang. The Doolin-Dalton Gang, aka The Wild Bunch (the real one) would have more or less regular members and some occasional helpers. Members included Bill Doolin, Bill Dalton, Red Buck Weightman, Dan "Dynamite Dick" Clifton, Little Dick West, Roy "Arkansas Tom Jones" Daughtery, Little Bill Raidler, William "Tulsa Jack" Black, and Bitter Creek Newcomb. Occasional members/helpers included Oliver Yantis, Charlie Pierce, "Little Britches" and "Cattle Annie."
This dirty "almost a dozen", like their predecessors the James, Youngers and Daltons, did many acts of thievery and troublemaking, and they began quickly as if striking in vengeance after the slaughter of their pals and family in the Dalton Gang deaths. November after the October failed bank heist in Kansas the new gang was hitting banks and trains. They hit Longview in Texas and robbed the bank there.
It was enough, however, and the U.S. Deputy Marshalls and local law moved the new gang to the top of the wanted list and made their eradication a top priority.
In a matter of just a couple of years, the outlaws were being whittled down to nothing. Even the "big names" were facing the consequences of their outlaw life.
Bill Doolin (1856- August 24, 1896), he was killed in Lawson (Quay), near the Pawnee and Payne County borders. In many reports it is claimed he died in Lawton but it is believed that is due to confusion with the end of Bill Dalton (see below). Lawson was in northeast Oklahoma and Lawton (like Ardmore) was in the southwest region.
Bill Dunn (aka Bee Dunn, William B Dunn), he had married Edith Ellsworth in 1893 in Ingalls. He, along with several of his brothers, had served as bounty hunters and claimed some credit in the demise of Bill Doolin. Others, suggest they arranged his death for the reward. Whatever the true case, he was himself shot by U.S. Marshall Frank Canton. It was part of a long-standing feud between the two men. The family consisted of several brothers and an uncle (who apparently was a clean cut and law-abiding citizen). Eldest son was John, Dal, George, a daughter Rose or Rosa, and youngest Calvin Dunn. The Dunn family, or Bill alone, owned some land two and miles north of the Cimarron River in Payne County and had several "hideouts" thought to be there as well. One, was a sod house and another a small farmhouse, and the Bill Dunn Ranch.
The members of the DOOLIN-DALTON GANG died in various places.
- George "R
ed Buck" Weightman, d. 1896 - Dan "Dynamite Dick" Clifton, d. 1897, near Checotah in I.T. He was riding with the new Al Jennings Gang.
- Little Dick Raidler (1865-c1905)
- William 'Tulsa Jack" Black
- Bitter Creek Necomb, (1860- May 1, 1895)
- Roy "Arkansas Tom Jones "Daughtery (1870-1924)
- Little Dick West (1865-1898)
- Nathaniel Ellsworth Wyatt aka "Zip" (1870-1895)
- Charlie "Cockeyed Charlie" Pierce (d. 1895 May 2, 1895, Dun Brothers ranch near Ingalls)
- Eugenia Moore (1868-1892ca)
- Blackface Charlie Bryant (d. 1891). Killed by U.S. Deputy Marshall Ed Short near Hennessey.
- Daisy Bryant (ca 1870 -?)
- Little Britches aka Jennie Stevenson Midkiff (b ca 1879 - )
- Cattle Annie aka Annie McDouler/McDougal (b. c 1879 - )
