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Go to your happy price. Priceline by the 1890s, it looked as if the west in general was becoming a little less wild. 30 years of westward expansion after the Civil War brought sweeping changes to the frontier. Most of the old legendary outlaws were dead or had moved on to new phases of their lives. Railroads crisscrossed the west, and telephones were starting to replace the telegraph in a few places. By 1890, the federal government's census officially declared the frontier gone. The declaration was a little ambitious because it was not gone. In the Kansas Oklahoma region, the Dalton Gang, one of the last prominent outlaw gangs of the west, became headline news in May of 1891. But the gang's crime spree, for all its headlines and craziness, only lasted a year and a half. Four corps members were killed in the Coffeyville raid in October 1892, and a fifth was captured and sent to prison less than a month afterward. Bill Doolin was of the early members of the Dalton Gang picked up the pieces and continued the spree. Three members of the new gang, called the Doolin Dalton Gang, also known as the Wild Bunch, robbed a bank in the tiny town of Spearville, Kansas. Seven months later, members of the gang hijacked a train outside Cimarron, Kansas. Three months after that came the big showdown in the village of ingalls, Oklahoma. On September 1st, a posse of lawmen led by a group of deputy U.S. marshals confronted at least six outlaws in Ingalls during a fierce firefight. Multiple people died, including three deputy marshals, but all of the gang members survived. One was captured and sent to prison, but the rest remained free. They only waited four months before going back to work on January 3, 1894, in the small Town of Clarkson, Oklahoma. Gang members Charlie Pierce and George Weightman robbed a general store. Twenty days later, members of the gang robbed the Farmers Citizens bank in Pawnee, Oklahoma. Six weeks after that, they robbed a train near Woodward, Oklahoma. That made three robberies in three months to begin the new year of 1894. And they had no plans to slow down. From Black Barrel Media, this is Legends of the Old West. I'm your host, Chris Wimmer, and this season we're telling the stories of infamous outlaws. Charlie Bowles, better known as Black Bart, Dirty Dave Rudabaugh and the Doolin Dalton Gang. This is episode six, the Doolin Dalton Gang, part two of Two Dead Outlaws. On April 1, 1894, three weeks after the Woodward train robbery, Bill Dalton and George Newcomb, nicknamed Bitter Creek Newcomb, rode into a small settlement called Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. They headed for a shop that was owned by a man named William Carr. Carr was a former deputy US Marshal with a somewhat dubious legacy. Like a number of lawmen before and after him, rumors circulated that he sometimes flirted with criminality and spent time with known outlaws. In the past, he had beat charges for murder and arson. But by 1894, Carr was generally considered an upstanding citizen, and he was now a shopkeeper. Bill Dalton and Bitter Creek Newcomb entered Carr's store with a purpose that is still up for debate. Some said they just wanted to buy feed for their horses. But then Carr recognized them as notorious outlaws. Others claimed they intended to rob the store. Either way, Carr drew down on them and the outlaws drew at nearly the same time. Pistols blazed in the store and Bill Dalton shot the former marshal in the stomach. But Carr kept fighting. He succeeded in forcing the two bandits out of his store. He shot Bitter Creek in the shoulder and continued to fire at them as they leapt onto their horses and galloped out of town. Remarkably, Mr. Carr survived his wound, but others would not be so lucky. Bill Doolin, Bill Dalton and five other members of the Wild Bunch rode into Southwest city, Missouri on May 10, 1894. The gang had not yet ventured into Missouri, but this excursion was memorable. The seven outlaws were heavily armed and they wore masks to cover their faces. The gang dismounted and they tied up their horses adjacent to the AF alt bank on Main Street. Two outlaws stayed with the horses and two others took up lookout positions. Bill Doolin, Bill Dalton and another gang member marched into the bank. Within 10 minutes, they had stuffed thousands of dollars into sacks. They took two bankers hostage and backed out of the bank. They moved slowly across Main street to the horses and the sight of masked men with guns, sacks of money and hostages drew plenty of attention. Citizens raised the alarm and they started firing at the Doolin Dalton gang. A gun battle erupted on Main street, despite the fact that the outlaws were using hostages as shields. When the robbers made it to their horses, Bill Doolin ordered the hostages to run. Then the seven outlaws began firing madly into the street, the shops and the alleys. As the outlaws charged out of town, they encountered stiff resistance. A deputy U.S. marshal and the city marshal assembled people on both sides of the street and ordered them to fire at the fleeing bandits. Two outlaws were hit as they rode through the gauntlet, and Bill Doolin was lucky to survive as buckshot sliced through the air next to his head. All of the outlaws made it out of town alive, and they stole at least $3,000. But they left a hell of a scene behind them. The town had been shot up and several people lay wounded on the ground. One of the wounded, a former state senator, died from his injuries four days later. Authorities in Oklahoma shuddered at the news of the raid across the border in Missouri. Later that month, Territorial Judge Frank Dale held a meeting with U.S. marshal Evett Nix in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Judge Dale had conducted the trial of Roy Doherty, aka Arkansas Tom, the only gang member who had been arrested at the Battle of Ingalls. Dale had sentenced the young outlaw to 50 years in prison, and the judge had reached his breaking point with the lawlessness and the killing. Marshal Nix was coordinating the manhunt for the Doolin Dalton gang, and he wrote in his autobiography that Judge Dale said, marshal, this is serious. I have reached the conclusion that that the only good outlaw is a dead one. You will instruct your deputies to bring in dead outlaws in the future. That will simplify your problem a great deal and probably save some lives.
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It was the last successful robbery that featured core members of the old Wild Bunch. After that robbery, for reasons that remain elusive, Bill Dalton recruited three new men and decided to conduct a robbery without anyone from the old gang. On May 23, 1894, just 13 days after the Southwest City robbery, Bill Dalton and his three associates rode into Longview, Texas. Dalton's partners were Jim Wallace and two brothers named Jim and Judd Knight. They robbed the First National bank of Longview and stole about $2,000 worth of banknotes and coins. But they also found themselves in a deadly shootout. Jim Wallace was killed and so were two citizens of Longview. Three more were wounded, including the city marshal. After another harrowing escape, Bill Dalton and the Knight brothers split up. Jud and Jim Knight found themselves in another shootout. Three years later, Judd was killed and Jim was captured and sent to prison for the Longview robbery. After Longview, Bill Dalton hid with relatives near Ardmore, Oklahoma. For a couple weeks, it seemed like Bill would get away with the heist, but then he used some of the stolen money to buy a wagon and supplies, and that led the U.S. marshals to his hideout. A posse of nine lawmen rode into Ardmore. The marshal who led the posse learned who bought the supplies and where he went. On June 8, 1894, the posse reached the cabin where Bill Dalton was hiding. The lawmen surrounded the cabin and by all accounts, they wanted dalton alive. But U.S. marshal Nix had also issued an instruction to the Deputy U.S. marshals, who became known as the Three Guardsmen, Heck Thomas, Chris Madsen, and Bill Tillman, which said of the gang members, bring them in alive if possible, dead if necessary. Bill Dalton was surrounded by a posse and he had no chance of winning a fight with nine lawmen, so he decided to make a run for it. He jumped through a window and sped through a patch of corn to escape. As he ran, the posse shouted for him to stop. Bill Dalton raced through the green cornstalks and disregarded the command. The men of the posse opened fire and shot and killed Bill Dalton. In the cabin there was a woman who claimed to be his wife, Jane. She confirmed the identity of her husband. The deputy marshal who led the posse sent a telegram to his superiors and informed them, have got one of the Longview bank robbers. He was killed while resisting arrest. Positive proof he is Bill Dalton. Jane Dalton took her husband's body to California for burial, and he was interred at Turlock Memorial Park Cemetery in an unmarked grave. That made three Dalton brothers, Bill, Bob and Grat, killed in the past two years and one in prison, Emmett. After Bill Dalton's death, all nine of the lawmen in the posse were indicted for murder, but none of their cases went to trial. Bill Dalton's death was a harbinger of what was to come for the rest of the Wild Bunch. After all the robberies the gang had committed and all the shootouts it had experienced, only two members had been killed. Oliver Yantis and Bill Dalton. The rest were still alive and free, though that was about to change in a hurry. The gang had just two more robberies in it before time was up. Neither worked out as planned, and then it was open season on the most wanted men in the country. Texana, Oklahoma, was a nondescript hamlet on the eastern edge of the territory, about 60 miles from Fort Smith, Arkansas, and the feared Judge Isaac Parker. Today, the community sits near the shores of Lake eufaula. But in 1894, the lake was 70 years away from creation through a dam on the Canadian River. As Texana was about to learn, even the smallest towns can be targets for robbery. Six outlaws, led by Bill Doolin, rode into town on December 19, six months after Bill Dalton was killed. As they had done many times before, some kept a lookout, while others entered a store. Inside, they found a defiant store clerk. Outside, they found resolute townsfolk. And according to most accounts, the gang had to Flee with just $20 in cash. It was a paltry sum, and the lackluster raid seemed to cause a fissure in the Wild Bunch. For almost four months, the gang did nothing. And when the outlaws materialized again, they were without their other namesake, Bill Doolin. Maybe he had lost faith in the gang, or maybe the gang had lost faith in him. But the remaining outlaws wanted $50,000 of army payroll that was rumored to be on the Rock island train. In central Oklahoma. The small town of Dover sits on the Oklahoma plains, north of Kingfisher, a Dalton gang hotspot, and west of Guthrie. The Chicago, Rock island and Pacific Railroad ran through town, and on April 3, 1895, the gang stopped the train to steal the army payroll. An attendant on one of the cars tried to stop the bandits from boarding, but the outlaws shot him and severely wounded him. The robbers found the safe, which reportedly held the payroll, but they also found they had no way to open it. Apparently, they didn't bring dynamite and couldn't find any other way to open the safe, so they abandoned it. The outlaws resorted to walking through the train cars and taking personal items from the passengers at gunpoint. When the men had collected enough loot, they hurried off the train, jumped onto their horses and rode northwest. But they didn't ride nearly fast enough or far enough. The U.S. marshals received word of the robbery and Deputy Marshal Madsen assembled a posse. The men boarded a train and arrived in Dover the following day. Madsen and his men easily found the trail of the outlaws. The lawmen rented or bought horses and started the pursuit. The gang members only made it about 25 miles northwest of Dover, near the settlement of Ames, before the posse caught up to them. The marshals ordered the gang to surrender, but the gang responded with the opening salvo of a shootout. For 45 minutes, the Outlaws and the marshals engaged in a vicious firefight. The marshals couldn't overwhelm the gang, and the gang couldn't force the marshals to quit. With the situation at an impasse, Bill Blake, better known as Tulsa Jack, tried to make a run for it. The marshals cut him down with ease. Soon after, Blake fell dead. Two more outlaws were wounded. At that point, the gang members decided they would have to take a chance on an escape. And somehow they made it. They escaped the posse and left Tulsa Jack Blake behind as a macabre trophy for the lawmen. That was another gang member down. Tulsa Jack made three in the past year and a half. Two were dead and one was in prison. And from that point forward, the attrition would happen much faster. The Doolin Dalton gang feared on the Southern plains as the Wild Bunch was done. From now on, it was every man for himself. For George Newcomb and Charlie Pierce, it wasn't technically every man for himself. They often worked as a pair, and they were two of the longest serving members of the gang. They had joined the Dalton Gang in its earliest days, and they had immediately joined Bill Doolin. When the old Dalton gang died in Coffeyville, Kansas. After the narrow escape from Deputy Marshal Chris Madsen's posse, Newcomb and Pierce headed for the friendly confines of the Dunn brothers ranch in Payne County, Oklahoma. The Dunn brothers, five of them, were bounty hunters who had also dabbled in rustling and robbing in the past. They existed in a gray area between outlaws and lawmen, though they probably leaned a little more toward the outlaw side. The Dunn brothers also had a sister named Rose, and she was the sweetheart of George Newcomb. Newcomb wanted to lay low while in the loving arms of his sweetheart, and he hoped he could collect some money that he believed the Dunn brothers owed him. Charlie Pierce likely just wanted a safe place to hide. As it happened, the two fugitives would find none of those things at the Dunn brothers ranch. George Bitter Creek Newcomb and Charlie Pierce rode their horses up to the ranch on May 2, 1895, one month after they escaped Chris Madsen's posse. The Dunn brothers were waiting, and not with a warm welcome. As the outlaws drew near the ranch, the Dunn brothers jumped out of their hiding places and launched an ambush. The brothers opened fire. Before either outlaw could defend himself in any serious way. George Newcomb and Charlie Pierce tumbled out of their saddles and were probably dead before they hit the ground. Newcomb was buried in Norman, Oklahoma, but his grave was later washed away. Pierce was buried in Guthrie under a tombstone that read Charlie Pierce desperado. Almost exactly four months later, it was the turn of longtime Doolin associate William Little. Bill Raidler. He's one of the lesser known members of the gang, but he had been a cowboy with Bill Doolin before they all committed themselves to the lives of outlaws. Bill Radler had eluded one of the famed three Guardsmen of the Deputy U.S. marshals, Chris Madsen, but he would not elude a second Deputy marshal Bill Tillman was on Radler's trail, and Tillman and two other lawmen caught Raidler on September 6, 1895. When Tillman ordered Raidler to surrender, Raidler refused. Like all members of the gang, he was quick to fight. Raidler started shooting his rifle, but a bullet fired from one of the lawmen smashed into the outlaw's wrist and forced him to drop his gun. Unable to shoot, Raidler ran. Another round hit him in the back of the neck and dropped him to the ground. Remarkably, when Deputy Tillman walked up to the outlaw, he saw Raidler was still alive. Tillman took Raidler into custody, and the wounded criminal beat the odds. He survived his injury and stood trial for charges related to the Dover train robbery. Raidler was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He served eight and was paroled in 1903. He passed away in 1909 or 1910, which made him one of only two members of the gang who lived that long. The other was Roy Doherty, who had been captured at the Battle of Ingalls. Meanwhile, the marshals were still at work, and the next outlaw to stumble into their net was Bill Doolin.
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Bill Doolin had not yet faced the marshals of Oklahoma Territory because he had fled Oklahoma Territory. He lived in New Mexico territory during the summer of 1895, and if he had stayed there, he may have lived longer. Instead, he and his wife moved to southeastern Kansas, which was far too close to the lawmen who were hunting for him in Oklahoma. Doolin went to Eureka springs, Arkansas, in January 1896. He hoped the soothing waters in the town's bathhouses would help his wounded and fatigued body. Maybe they did. But he unknowingly delivered himself into the hands of Deputy US Marshal Bill Tillman. On January 15th. Tillman surprised Doolin and Doolin didn't put up a fight. The leader of the most infamous outlaw gang of the time was in federal custody. But that didn't mean his story was over. Far from it. And two of his associates would join him in the newspaper headlines. Dan Clifton, nicknamed Dynamite Dick, was also captured by the US Marshals. Doolin and Clifton were sent to Guthrie, Oklahoma, where they would stand trial. When Doolin arrived in town, hundreds of people assembled to see the man whom some called the king of the outlaws. But if he were the king, he was rapidly losing his band of merry men. Bill Dalton, Bill Blake, George Newcomb, and Charlie Pierce were dead. William Raidler was in prison, and at that moment, so were Doolin and Clifton. Next to fall was George Redbuck Weightman, while Doolin and Clifton sat in jail in Guthrie. Weightman was killed on March 4, 1896, while resisting a posse in Custer County, Oklahoma. Almost exactly four months later, Doolin and Clifton decided they were done with jail. On July 5, 1896, Doolin initiated an escape. With the help of other prisoners, including his friend Dan Clifton, Doolin jumped the jail's night guard. A second guard witnessed the attack and tried to run, but Doolan caught him and disarmed him. Doolan pointed the gun at the guard's chest and ordered him to open all the cells. The guard complied, and 14 prisoners escaped. That night, they grabbed coats, hats, vests, and weapons and made their way out of the Guthrie jail. Outside of Guthrie, Doolan and Clifton held up a buggy. They threw a man and woman out of the carriage and took off. Doolin and Clifton then parted ways. Bill Doolin reunited with his wife, and they hid in Lawson, Oklahoma. Doolin enjoyed just two months of freedom before one of the three guardsmen came calling. Deputy U.S. marshal Heck Thomas led a posse that included the Dunn brothers who had killed George Newcomb and Charlie Pierce. After weeks of tracking, Thomas and his posse met a blacksmith who reported Doolin's location near Lawson. The posse finally closed in on the King on August 25, 1896. As with the Battle of Ingalls, there are some wild discrepancies about the confrontation. Some accounts claim Heck Thomas found Bill Doolin on the farm where Doolin was hiding. Other accounts say Doolin was walking through the town of Lawson when the posse spotted him. Ultimately, Doolin was outside and in the open when Deputy Thomas identified himself and shouted for Doolin to stop moving. Doolin paused for a moment, and Thomas told him to surrender. Doolin scanned the area and saw he was outnumbered. He had no interest in surrendering and had no desire to face a prison cell again. A tense moment passed, and then Bill Doolin opened fire. He carried a Winchester rifle and a pistol, and he tried to use both to fight the posse. The posse returned fire, and there was no hope for Bill Doolin. No one knows for sure who killed Doolin that day, but the fatal shots were from the barrels of a shotgun, possibly fired by Heck Thomas. Doolin took the buckshot to the chest, and the blast knocked the outlaw to the ground. When it was clear Doolin was dead, the posse loaded him onto a wagon to transport him back to Guthrie. In Guthrie, Doolan's body was displayed and photographed. The picture shows a shirtless Bill Doolin, bony and thin, with a scruffy beard and mustache and at least 20 wounds on his chest. Four days later, he was buried in the Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, where his burial plot remains today. Bill Doolin's widow sued the Marshal Service for wrongful death, but the case was dismissed the following year. By the end of August 1896, just two members of the Doolin Dalton gang remained alive and free. Dan Clifton and Richard West. And they were on borrowed time. 20 months, to be exact. Clifton was a minor criminal before Bill Doolin welcomed him into the fold. Now Clifton was wanted for a slew of crimes, and he was an escaped fugitive. He successfully laid low for a few months after his jailbreak with Bill Doolin, and the US Marshals lost track of him. But they found his trail at the end of the year, and Deputy Chris Madsen led a posse in pursuit. On December 4, 1896, the posse found the outlaw at a farm in Newkirk, a settlement in eastern Oklahoma. Clifton refused to surrender, and according to a local newspaper, he put up a tenacious fight. More than 100 rounds were fired as he took on an entire posse. For a while, he seemed to hold his own, but Clifton's luck ran out when he tried to escape, and the posse shot him as he made his break. No one claimed Dan Clifton's body, and he was buried in an unmarked grave at Green Hill Cemetery in Muskogee, Oklahoma. And then there was one Richard west, probably the least known of the gang members. West was a cowboy who was believed to have been born in Texas. He stood just 5ft 1 inch tall, but he was not afraid to fight. He participated in most of the major heists the gang committed, and he was wounded during the bank robbery in Southwest City, Missouri. After the gang broke up, west joined brothers Al and Frank Jennings to form the Jennings Gang. The five man gang was a miserable failure and they never managed a successful robbery. In 1897, four of the five were captured and only Richard west remained free. He stayed free for another year until he made the extremely unwise decision to go to Guthrie, the territorial capital of Oklahoma. In April 1898, west was confronted by a group of lawmen. In most stories, Deputy Marshal Chris Madsen led the group, but in others, it was led by the other two guardsmen, Heck Thomas and Bill Tillman. Either way, like most of West's friends in the Doolin Dalton gang, he refused to go quietly. West shot it out with the lawmen and predictably, he lost. Richard west, the last surviving outlaw of the original Wild Bunch, died on a street in Guthrie. He was buried near his friend Bill Doolin at Summit View Cemetery, northeast of town. From the gang's first robbery, led by Bill Doolin in the small town of Spearville, Kansas in November 1892, to the final shootout in Guthrie, Oklahoma in April 1898, various members of the Doolin Dalton gang were alive and active for five and a half years. Like most outlaw gangs, they packed a lot of adventure and destruction into a relatively short space of time. Then, one year after west was killed, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid committed their famous train robbery near Wilcox, Wyoming. It was defined final major heist of their careers and the end of the era for the major outlaws of the Old West. They were all immortalized by dime novels. And as the years rolled by, new forms of media emerged. The first big movie about the Doolin Dalton gang was released in 1949, 53 years after Bill Doolin's death. It was called the Doolins of Oklahoma and it starred early western movies. Movie icon Randolph Scott as Bill Doolin. In April 1973, 75 years after Richard West's death, the American rock band the Eagles released their western themed concept album Desperado. Three songs pay homage to the Doolins and the Daltons. Doolin, Dalton, obviously Bitter Creek, which was loosely inspired by George Bitter Creek Newcomb, and 21, which was about Emmett Dalton, who was 21 years old when he survived the Coffeyville raid. Next time on Legends of the Old West. It's a topic that has been requested often. The Transcontinental Railroad as a singular topic. It's enormous. So we're going to tell some exciting individual stories that represent different aspects of the grandest construction project in the American west, maybe in all of American history. Those stories start next time on Legends of the Old West. Members of our Black Barrel program don't have to wait week to week to receive new episodes. They receive the entire season to binge all at once with no commercials. And they also receive exclusive bonus episodes. Sign up now through the link in the show or on our website blackberrymedia.com memberships are just $5 per month. The series was researched and written by Michael Meglish. The producer was Joe Guerra. Original music by Rob Valier. I'm Chris Wimmer. Thanks for listening.
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Legends of the Old West - Episode 6: Doolin Daltons: Dead Outlaws
Podcast Information
Introduction to the Doolin Dalton Gang In this gripping episode, host Chris Wimmer takes listeners deep into the tumultuous era of the late 19th century American West, focusing on the rise and fall of the notorious Doolin Dalton Gang, also known as the Wild Bunch. The episode explores how this gang became one of the last prominent outlaw groups in a rapidly modernizing frontier, highlighting their audacious crimes, deadly confrontations, and eventual demise.
The Changing Landscape of the American West By the 1890s, the American West was undergoing significant transformation. The expansion of railroads and the advent of telephones began to erode the wildness that had once characterized the frontier. Chris Wimmer sets the stage by explaining:
“By the 1890s, it looked as if the west in general was becoming a little less wild. Railroads crisscrossed the west, and telephones were starting to replace the telegraph in a few places.” (00:56)
Despite the federal census declaring the frontier closed in 1890, lawlessness persisted, particularly in regions like Kansas and Oklahoma.
Rise of the Doolin Dalton Gang The episode chronicles the emergence of the Dalton Gang, initially led by the Dalton brothers. However, their downfall came swiftly during the Coffeyville raid in October 1892, where four members were killed, and a fifth was captured. Bill Doolin, a resilient figure among the outlaws, reorganized the remnants into the Doolin Dalton Gang.
Notable early crimes include:
Major Confrontations and Lawmen Pursuit One of the pivotal moments discussed is the September 1, 1894 showdown in Ingalls, Oklahoma. A posse led by Deputy U.S. Marshals engaged the gang in a fierce gunfight, resulting in multiple casualties, including three deputy marshals. However, the majority of the gang escaped, highlighting both their cunning and the relentless pursuit by law enforcement.
Notable Quotes:
Judge Frank Dale: Reflecting the increasing frustration with outlaws, he stated:
“Marshal, this is serious. I have reached the conclusion that the only good outlaw is a dead one.” (08:50)
Spree Continues and Internal Strife Despite mounting pressure, the gang continued their spree into 1894, executing robberies in Clarkson and Pawnee, Oklahoma. However, internal challenges began to surface:
Decline and Demise of Key Members The relentless pursuit by lawmen, particularly the trio known as the Three Guardsmen—Heck Thomas, Chris Madsen, and Bill Tillman—led to the demise of several gang members:
Capture of Bill Doolin The leader of the gang, Bill Doolin, evaded capture for nearly two years, hiding across various territories:
Legacy and Cultural Impact Despite their short-lived operations, the Doolin Dalton Gang left an indelible mark on American folklore:
“From the gang's first robbery... to the final shootout... they packed a lot of adventure and destruction into a relatively short space of time.” (09:22)
Conclusion In this episode, Chris Wimmer masterfully weaves the narrative of the Doolin Dalton Gang, illustrating the complexities of outlaw life in a changing West. Their story encapsulates the clash between law enforcement advancements and the fading era of the Wild West, highlighting themes of loyalty, ambition, and the inexorable march of progress.
Production Credits
Notable Quotes with Timestamps
Chris Wimmer:
Judge Frank Dale:
Host Closing Remarks:
Final Thoughts For enthusiasts of Western history and outlaw legends, Episode 6 of Legends of the Old West offers a comprehensive and engaging exploration of the Doolin Dalton Gang. Through meticulous research and compelling storytelling, Chris Wimmer brings to life the perilous adventures and ultimate downfall of one of the West's most formidable outlaw groups.