May 3, 1871 - Emmett Dalton
The Dalton Gang's raid on Coffeyville, Kansas stands as one of the most catastrophic failures in the history of American outlawry — an attempt to rob two banks simultaneously that left four of five gang members dead in the street. Emmett alone walked away, though barely, absorbing 23 gunshot wounds before he was captured and later imprisoned. His story occupies an unusual place in the record of frontier crime: a surviving witness to the consequences of that violence, who lived on for another four and a half decades after the gunfight that killed his brothers.
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Emmett Dalton (May 3, 1871 – July 13, 1937) was an American outlaw, train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West. Part of a gang that attempted to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, on October 5, 1892, he was the only member of five to survive, despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds. Two of his brothers were killed. After serving 14 years in prison for the crime, Dalton was pardoned. He later capitalized on his notoriety, both as a writer and as an actor. His 1918 serial story Beyond the Law was adapted as a like-named silent film in which he played himself. His 1931 book When the Daltons Rode was adapted after his death as a 1940 film of the same name.
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