The Doolin-Dalton Gang rose from the ashes of the Dalton Gang’s bloody Coffeyville disaster. When Grat and Bob Dalton fell dead in October 1892, brother Bill Dalton joined forces with Bill Doolin, a seasoned outlaw from Oklahoma Territory.
Their new gang soon struck fear
across the frontier. Members
included “Bitter Creek” Newcomb, William “Tulsa Jack” Blake, and Charley
Pierce. One of their fiercest gunmen was Israel Carr, a black outlaw. Carr was
said to have killed more men than the entire gang combined. A lawman called him
“one mean son-of-a-bitch.”
Other
deadly characters joined the gang. There was Dan “Dynamite Dick” Clifton and
“Arkansas Tom” Jones. The law knew them all as hardened killers. “Tulsa Jack”
had once worked as a cowboy but preferred robbing trains to riding fence.
Dynamite Dick got his name from his favorite tool—he was the gang’s explosives
expert, always grinning as he lit the fuse. Arkansas Tom was a brooding,
unpredictable sort who claimed he only rode with the gang for the excitement.
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