Wild Bunch

This article is about the gang. For the 1969 movie, see The Wild Bunch.

The Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin–Dalton Gang, was a group of outlaws based in Indian Territory, that terrorized Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s—robbing banks and stores, holding up trains, and killing lawmen.

Activities of the gang

William "Bill" Doolin, in addition to having been a member of the Dalton Gang, had been a cowboy in Kansas and the Cherokee Outlet and held something of a "Robin Hood" image. He was well liked by many, and he and his gang received considerable aid in eluding the law (see Ingalls, Oklahoma). The gang consisted at various times of Bill Doolin, George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb (aka "Slaughter Kid"), Charlie Pierce, Oliver "Ol" Yantis, William Marion "Bill" Dalton, William "Tulsa Jack" Blake, Dan "Dynamite Dick" Clifton, "Arkansas Tom" Jones ( born Roy Daugherty), George "Red Buck" Waightman, Richard "Little Dick" West, and William F. "Little Bill" Raidler.

The passing of the Wild Bunch

Ol Yantis — killed November 29, 1891 at Orlando, Oklahoma Territory by a sheriff's possee.
Arkansas Tom Jones — captured September 1, 1893, in Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory; pardoned in 1910; killed August 16, 1924, in Joplin, Missouri, by Joplin police detectives.
Bill Dalton — killed June 8, 1894, near Elk, Oklahoma Territory, by an Anadarko posse.
Tulsa Jack Blake — killed April 4, 1895, in Major County, Oklahoma Territory, by Deputy U.S. Marshals.
Bitter Creek Newcomb — killed May 2, 1895, in Payne County, Oklahoma Territory, by the Dunn brothers.
Charley Pierce — killed May 2, 1895, in Payne County, Oklahoma Territory, by the Dunn brothers.
Little Bill Raidler — captured September 6, 1895, by Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman; paroled in 1903 because of complication from wounds received when he was captured; died 1904.
Bill Doolin — captured January 15, 1896, by Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman; escaped with Dynamite Dick Clifton; killed August 24, 1896, in Lawson, Oklahoma Territory, by a posse under Deputy U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas.
Red Buck Waightman — killed March 4, 1896, near Arapaho, Oklahoma Territory, by a Custer County posse.
Dynamite Dick Clifton — captured June, 1896, by Deputy U.S. Marshals from Texas; escaped with Bill Doolin; killed November 7, 1897, near Checotah, Indian Territory, by Deputy U.S. Marshals.
Little Dick West — killed April 8, 1898, in Logan County, Oklahoma Territory, by Deputy U.S. Marshals.

A later "Wild Bunch"

A later gang also called the "Wild Bunch", was an outlaw gang in the American Wild West; it was led by Butch Cassidy, and it included the Sundance Kid, Tall Texan, News Carver, Camila Hanks, Laura Bullion, Elza Lay, Flat-Nose Curry, Kid Curry and Bob Meeks. The Wild Bunch tried to abstain from killing people, and Cassidy boasted of having never killed a man.

At 1:00 a.m on June 2, 1899, Cassidy, Curry, Logan and Lay took part in the highly successful Union Pacific train holdup at Wilcox, Wyoming, stealing $30,000. Afterwards, the gang fled to New Mexico. The men were wearing masks made from white napkins possibly stolen from a Harvey House restaurant.

On August 29, 1900, Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Logan, and two unidentified gang members held up another Union Pacific train at Tipton, Wyoming. Less than a month later, on September 19, 1900, they raided the First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nevada, stealing $32,640.

In 1901, Cassidy along with the Sundance Kid and Etta Place relocated to South America. In 1908, Cassidy and Sundance may have been killed in a shootout with Bolivian cavalry; but there is evidence they both returned to the United States, with the Sundance Kid dying in 1936.

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Activities of the gang

The passing of the Wild Bunch

A later "Wild Bunch"

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