The Dalton Gang, brothers Bob, Grat and Emmet along with Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers wanted to do what no one had ever done before - rob two banks at the same time. After hiding out on Onion Creek, west of Coffeyville, they rode into town heading east on Eighth Street early on the morning of October 5, 1892. The Dalton brothers, being former residents of Coffeyville, wore disguises. They were pretending to be federal marshals who often came to town, the gang had planned to tie their horses between the two banks, but because Eighth Street was torn up, they tied them in the alley close to the jail. That was their first mistake. listen to this exciting account of how the Dalton Gang was wiped out by the good citizens of Coffeyville Kansas
