😃❤So fun!

B.S.

@@bobsyouruncle66 You have a right to an opinion. I was born and raised there. Story is completely true.

I visited Coffeyville on the anniversary of the raid when locals do a reenactment. It amazed me how close together everything was, the two banks and the alley. The whole event seemed to take just seconds, and everyone was dead except Emmett!

@@404cowgirl Puts the whole event into focus doesn't it?

never call a man old thats very insulting.

@@tabarnacdostidecal no it's not,,what are you talking about

@@tabarnacdostidecal AGREED

@@michaelcollins237 he ain't that old

A lot of cops I had the displeasure to meet were scum(not all). The only difference between them and the criminals they arrest is who they work for. Overly aggressive, tattooed, steroided up sociopaths. I have heard case after case of them going after people they dislike... and managing to get charges and convictions on people who didnt commit those crimes(but maybe they got away with other stuff). Still, I dont think acting like a lawless criminal to enforce the law is good thing.

There is a 'Life Size' photo of the deceased gang members in the Dalton Defenders Museum here in Coffeyville as well as all their personal belongings. On another note, Coffeyville was also the home of Walter 'Big Train' Johnson who played professional baseball and The Funk Brothers who designed and built airplanes.

Wow the old west has some amazing true stories and Jesse James was able too escape the law in them days only to be shot in the back by one of his gang members for a rànsom and I often wonder how would Jesse and Frank James story would have ended without that baçkstabbing member of his

Love this. I am a James descendent.

I was there last month.

Your grandfather Richard was a punk

Tombstone isnt the midwest, that's the southwest. Midwest is the great lakes states and the plains states

The Dalton family came from Lancashire, England.

@@hetrodoxly1203 I’m the sole survivor!

@@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67 That's interesting are you descended from Charles Coleman Dalton?

@@hetrodoxly1203 I’m afraid not old chap.

Hard times make strong men who make easy times. Easy times make weak men who make hard times. I can at least count on a man from back then to have my back and not today's tick tock "are you mansplaining" type

Four citizens of Coffeyville, including the town Marshall, were killed in the crossfire. That's why the annual renactment is named "Dalton Defender Days". It is the defense of the town against the Dalton Gang that is remembered.

The original Condon Bank building is there and has been restored to how it looked in 1892. It serves as the office for the Area Chamber of Commerce. The bank itself existed until 2013. @JhonnyCash-mo2wx

I don't know why they choose a weekday at 4pm. Most are still at work and dealing with family. How nice would a relaxed hour on Saturday or Sunday evening have been?

Very similar to Northfield, MN. Defeat of Jesse James in September.

How many of the original buildings are still there now? How big a town was it back then? I am amazed at how many people were around at 9.3 am.

@@ValMartinIreland I’m from KC and shot a wedding there once years ago. I also have flown over it a few times. It’s not a large town now so get rid of the big box stores, parks, high school sports fields, etc and I’d imagine it’s about the same size.

Really. I live in Tulsa and when I moved here and realized that I was so close to Coffeyville & that I had to drive to independence I made our group stop to see the hitching post and graves.

I’m definitely going to go to the defender day in October this year. Had never heard about it til I read your comment.

I spent a few days in Coffeyville back in 2007. It rained the entire time and when I was leaving, I fueled up and barely got out of town before the levees broke and destroyed the town.

@@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703 Well, it certainly did pretty much wipe out the East - Northeast side of town.

See my reply above concerning playing in the cemetery where the Daltons are buried.

No, not really an argument for the Second Amendment- there was no time for folks to run home and arm themselves. Instead, we have several local hardware stores becoming improvised arsenals. Just like what happened to the James/Younger gang in Northfield...

Me too

As Blevins descendant, agreed.

Arizona historian Marshal Trimbal

thanks for sharing

Just like the Great British government sent their criminals to Australia, you being from Autralia proved the name dalton means criminal.

@@jimsworthow531 Before sending convicts to Australia they were sent to America

^^^ what he said

In 1870 there was roughly 38.9 million people living in the US with a quarter of the population living in urban areas and cities. Today we are upwards of 350 million. 2/3 of the population live in urban areas and cities today. Firearms were not required to have serial numbers and many did not back in the old west days. My grandfather bought a 12 gauge shotgun at the local hardware for $3.50 in the 1870s. I still have that gun among many others. As far as how many are actually registered.. LOL. You can figure that number to be probably four times higher. America has always been big on the gun because of our Wars. The right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution, and because of those wars, let Americans decide for themselves if they wanted to own firearms and most did. Guns were only unpopular with women and preachers, but some of those were even gunslingers, along with people that went to church. I don't carry a firearm these days. You can be held accountable for too much carrying those things around. However, laying beside me every night is a 9 mm automatic. And I live out in the country. There's not a robber around every corner, but thieves come and go, and houses get broken into on and off. Keeping a firearm beside you is a good idea. I never keep One in the Chamber though. I can't remember which famous Japanese officer made this comment, when it was suggested to him that they invade America during WW2. He said, it's impossible because there was a gun behind every blade of grass. There's a lot of Truth to that. There's probably 15 firearms in my own home

@@70stunes71 - The ironic thing is the US in Not even the biggest Gun ownership per percentage of population. I believe It's Finland is first, Switzerland is second (Where all Children are required to own, train with a pistol and a rifle every year). Then Israel is third. The US has the most guns per person, but only less than 50% of the population are gun owners. India has the biggest number of registered and unregistered guns.

Mr Taylor, according to my grandfather George W Dalton 1880-1957 on my mother's side said he's related to the Dalton Boys. Sure would like to see a copy of that photo of Bob wearing a stetson hat.

I'm glad they kept the town's layout about same as it was. It's too bad Dodge City didn't do the same. They left a company put stockyards and slaughter houses so close to the city that it's really stinks.

what about the lessen-known lawmen like Skipper MacGee or Albert Wisaldav?

Yes i believe that in both robberies in Northfield and Coffeeville, after being shot, one of the gangs brother went back to help the other; yes different places, times but all family related, Youngers and Daltons were first cousins and also in some way the 2 James boys. My grandpa on my mother's side was George Washington Dalton 1880-1957, was 3rd cousin. A few stories were told to me and my siblings by our mother. Thanks True West Magazine for your video, also my Grandpa Dalton told his story to the True West Magazine sometime in the 1950s

The youngest of the Dalton brothers survived the raid on Coffeyville. He wasn't exactly welcome to stay here. It's my understanding that Emmet left Kansas to move to California.

@@jtuttle11 so maybe my next door neighbors were really related to that family. There was some resemblance in the pictures, but that doesn't mean a claim is genuine. Hmm...interesting. Their father had a hair trigger temper. He was the Dalton, but he never talked about "that" background. He did look like he could have been related. He just up and walked off one day.

If you drove a couple of miles out of town to see the graves, You missed them. The graves are within the city limits of Coffeyville.

Blevins, here. My great-grandma used to tell stories about patching them up after raids. It always felt cool to be descendant of such notorious figures.

Bad Frank Philips

That is correct my friend. I grew up In Coffeyville. The City Marshall was killed in Death Alley rather early in the battle.

That's correct, I grew up in Coffeyville and he is celebrated as one of the Dalton Defenders.

Somewhat of an unpopular opinion, here, but Marshal Connelley was reported (by several eye-witnesses, including my great-grandfater, Ansel McMurtry, employee of Isham's hardware, and also reported in a book titled, "Not In My Town", by Ursula Turner) to have been accidentally gunned down in a hail of friendly fire from Isham's. He stepped out into the alley, amid a storm of lead, shouted at the escaping Dalton boys, "Stop in the name of the law, or I'll shoot!", and was promptly hit in the back by rifle fire from the hardware store shooters. Later, the vilification of the Dalton Gang lent a little more credence to the idea that Grat shot him dead, but local townsfolk testimony says otherwise! It's still a mystery, and never confirmed, but if you ask anyone at the Dalton museum in Coffeyville, they'll corroborate that story as "plausible".

Unfortunately?

@@rdallas81 Yes, I hate criminals with a passion, I feel no mercy towards them.

@@BillyTheBigKid82 everyone knows what they do is either wrong or right . There is a "moral law" written in everyone. Someone committing a crime always hides and runs because they already know inside what they did or do is wrong. Be safe out there Bill

Robbing banks back then was barely considered a crime to most. Most people generally looked at the banks like we do the big wig corporations today.

I completely see your point, but stealing is stealing. If it isn't yours, you didn't find it somewhere, lost in a hole, and no one is willingly giving it to you, leave it alone.

RIP

I grew up in Tulsa. I think Bill Doolin maybe met his end in OK too. It’s the nature of the land, outlaw-sanctuary. Folks even blasted each other in the land run. Respect to the Native history there.

What a astute observation, ....(money, popularity,) Propaganda is a great tool of persuasion... Often used to bend the minds of the people, nothing changes, not then, and certainty not now!

Good times. Too bad things aren't like that now.

Just like "every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints"

Zero line between you and criminal then right?

@@Alcapone3176 Nope! That's a thin line between Cop and Criminal. A very well known and commonly used phrase. Just wanted to make sure you got that right. Google it! In this age of information, your ignorance is your choice. The one you just made up, sounds like something you just pulled out of your ass.

@@dcuss7294 the thin blue line?

@@michaelbrownlee9497 Whatever 'you' wanna call it.

Awesome story!

Hahaha that's exactly what i thought 🤣🤣🤣 gawd Lucky Luke was the best man

theyre probably a little ashamed of the way they treated the dead, and even dead horses😂

I don't believe that either

@@JohnDoe-ie1fe Doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, it happened. There is video online showing their bodies laid out in front of the the funeral home. My grandmother lived in the next small town over from where they were killed. Her older brother drove her over to see them. She was 12 at the time.

Ian Riordan - Didn't English oppression end with the War of Independence..?

@@davidearea242 Yes a 114 years after the war of independence and we were still getting the blame. Personally i blame the Romans

Bad seed.

@@alanbush4192 lousy romans bringing us paved roads and water projects.

Yep, English oppressors made them rob all those banks and trains. Oh, and murdering people when convenient. Life was hard for sure but they made a choice.

I agree.. Though, I could imagine it being the same with some people today, as far as cutting souvenirs from dead people and not caring about people dying near them. I've seen some pretty soulless stuff from modern day on the internet.

My great uncle was in WWI and brought home with him various souvenirs and a few of them were a German soldiers femur and a 45 revolver with several notches on it. He carried those souvenirs and other WWI items recovered from the battlefield wherever he went, and even took it to Brazil when he was posted there. He married there and his wife buried the German leg bone in the back yard to its final resting place. Now that caught our attention as children. Those were the good stories told in the darkness with only a candle light. No one can remotely know today how powerful those stories were to our imagination

Back in 91, me and my folks went to Yuma State Prison. UNREAL that ANYBODY could've survived THAT place. We also went to Tombstone. WOW. I would love to go back there just one more time before I die. Oh well.

@@rayjingloryproductions3770 I'm sure that was a good place to have a vacation but did you know it's one of the highest crime areas in the country.

Bob Younger died in jail in Minnesota.From consumption & problems with being shot when he stood to surrender.After seeing those horrible little cells.I can understand why.I am glad Cole,Jim & Rhetta were able to be there.Nowadays even child murderers often live a more luxurious life than many old folks & children in this country.Something surely wrong here!