Emmett Dalton

Members of the notorious Dalton gang were killed October 5, 1892, during attempted bank robberies in Coffeyville, Kansas. Emmett Dalton survived, receiving 23 gunshot wounds. He was sentenced to life in prison at Lansing.

Dalton was born in 1871 in Missouri, the youngest in a large family. The Daltons moved to Indian Territory in 1882. At first his brothers became guards, possemen, deputies, and marshals. Several of the Dalton sons moved to California and were blamed for a series of train robberies beginning in 1889. On October 5, 1892, Emmett along with his brothers Bob and Grat, and two other men, were shot during robberies in Coffeyville. Bob, Grat, adnt he two other men were killed, Emmett was shot while trying to help his brother Bob onto a horse and was captured.

After he had served 14 years at Lansing, Dalton was pardoned and lived his remaining life in California where he died in 1937.