Into The Sunset: Emmett Dalton And The End Of The Dalton Gang

On October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle with the citizens of Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead and three others seriously injured. Four of the dead were members of the notorious Dalton Gang--Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, and two brothers, Bob and Grat Dalton. The fifth outlaw, the 21-year-old Emmett Dalton, was captured alive but with 23 bullet and buckshot wounds. The Last Cowboy is the story of Emmett Dalton and of how he and several of his brothers drifted from one side of the law to the other in the frontier lands of the late nineteenth century. It is the story of shoot-'em-ups and train robberies, of the closing of the frontier, and of what desperate men do in desperate times to survive. Emmett Dalton not only survived, but prospered. After serving a fourteen-year prison term at the Kansas Penitentiary, he moved to Southern California, published two accounts of his and his brothers' exploits, both of which were made into movies--

• | Author: Ian W. Shaw
• | Publisher: University Press Of Kansas
• | Publication Date: Jul 14, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0700635505
• | ISBN-13: 9780700635504