Bob Dalton (outlaw)
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| Born |
Robert Rennick Dalton May 13, 1869 Cass County, Missouri, United States |
| Died | October 5, 1892 (aged 23) Coffeyville, Kansas, United States |
| Cause of death | Gunshot |
| Nationality | American |
| Criminal charge | Bank robbery, train robbery |
| Parent(s) | James Lewis Dalton; Adeline Lee Younger |
| Allegiance | Dalton Gang |
Robert Rennick Dalton (May 13, 1869 – October 5, 1892), better known as Bob Dalton, was an American outlaw in the American Old West. He led the ill-fated Dalton Gang raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas. Ambushed by town citizens, Bob, Bill Power, Grat Dalton and Richard L. "Dick" Broadwell were all killed.
The Dalton family came from Jackson County, Missouri. Dalton's father, Lewis Dalton, was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Kansas, when he married Adeline Younger, the aunt of Cole and Jim Younger. By 1882, the family moved to northeast Oklahoma, then known as the Indian Territory, and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. Bob was one of 13 of the couple's 15 children who survived to maturity. His siblings included: Frank, Grat. Bill and Emmett.
Bob acquired a reputation for being dangerous after he killed a man at age 19. A deputy at the time, he claimed the killing was in the line of duty. The victim, however, was suspected of flirting with a girl that Bob liked.
Bob's older brother Frank was a U.S.A.U. (meaning?) Deputy Marshal and Bob served with him on several posses. Frank was killed by a gang of horse thieves, the Smith-Dixon Gang, on November 27, 1887 and Bob may have been part of that posse. After that incident Bob wished to be commissioned as a Deputy Marshal in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas and was assigned to work for the Wichita, Kansas Court. Additionally, Dalton also served as the Chief of police for the Osage Nation while he was with the Kansas court.
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