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Coffeyville, Kansas: The Town That Stopped the Dalton Gang, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan; Dalton Gang's Raid on Coffeyville, by Robert Barr Smith, History Net; Presland, Kith M. "Emmett Dalton – His Life After the Coffeyville Raid". Kayempea.net. Archived from the original on November 4, 2015
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Their plan was to rob two banks in the same town at the same time to get the money and to also make history for accomplishing something that no other outlaw gang had attempted. Their target was their old hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas. [7] Early on Oct. 5 1892, Bob, Grat, and Emmett Dalton, with Powers and Broadwell, entered Coffeyville.
Shortly thereafter, Doolin became a member of the Dalton Gang. On October 5, 1892, the Dalton Gang tried to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville. It was an utter failure. Coffeyville residents and lawmen rallied in a shootout against the outlaws, resulting in four of the five gang members being killed.
Coffeyville is a city in southeastern Montgomery County, Kansas, United States, [1] located along the Verdigris River in the state's southeastern region. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 8,826. [4] [5] Coffeyville is the most populous city of Montgomery County, and the home to Coffeyville Community College.
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When the Dalton Gang attempted to rob two banks in Coffeyville on October 5, 1892, Charles T. Carpenter was taken hostage in his bank. In the gun battle that followed the failed raid, which turned out to be the gang's last, four townspeople were killed, and four gang members were killed and the fifth captured and imprisoned.
Norman Jack “Dusty” Kleiss was born on March 7, 1916, in Coffeyville, Kansas.His parents were John Louis Kleiss and Lulu Dunham Kleiss. In 1934, Kleiss accepted an appointment to the United States Naval Academy.