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Newman Haynes
“Old Man” Clanton
(1816-1881) – The head of the Clanton Clan in Cochise County,
Arizona,
Clanton was accused by the
Earps of
rustling, ambushing smugglers and harboring rustlers. However, he
was never prosecuted or arrested for these alleged crimes. In July
1881,
Old Man Clanton and several of his rustlers, ambushed a group of
Mexican
cowboys
driving a herd through Guadalupe Canyon, killing 19 of them. The
slaughter was later known as the Guadalupe Canyon Massacre. In
retaliation,
Clanton and four of his men were killed in the same canyon by
Mexican
cowboys
seeking revenge for the earlier ambush. Originally, he was buried in
the Animas Valley of
New Mexico. However, he was later reinterred in Boot Hill at
Tombstone,
Arizona.
William “Billy” Clanton
(1862-1881)
--
Billy Clanton, a gunman, took a horse
Wyatt Earp
claimed belonged to him, which precipitated the
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Billy
was killed in the gunfight along with
Frank
and
Tom McLaury. Billy Clanton is buried at the Boothill Graveyard in
Tombstone,
Arizona.
 Isaac
“Ike” Clanton (1847-1887) – A member of the Clanton family in Cochise County,
Arizona, he
was unarmed when the
Earps and
Doc Holliday
advanced on them at the
O.K. Corral. Ike, the braggart leader of the
outlaws, fled at the first sound of gunfire with
Billy Claiborne hot
on his heels. His brother
William "Billy" Clanton
was killed in the shootout along with
Frank
and
Tom McLaury. Ike Clanton schemed
revenge on the
Earps, arranging to have Virgil Earp
ambushed in November 1881. Virgil was hit in the back and was
crippled for the rest of his life. In March, 1882
Clanton and
four henchmen, shot and killed
Morgan Earp.
Wyatt Earp
then gathered a posse including his brother Warren and
Doc Holliday
and went after the
Clanton Gang
killing three of them. Ike fled to Mexico and hid under an assumed
name. When
Earp
finally gave up the search,
Ike returned to the
Tombstone
area, took up his old rustling ways, and was shot in 1887 by lawmen. He was buried where he was shot in an isolated grave in Greelee County,
Arizona.
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Crazy Horse (1842-1877)
- In reaction to a rumor that
Crazy Horse
was plotting an escape from his reservation, the Red Cloud Agency, Army
troops and Indian police seized the famous chief. When he discovered
he was being taken to the post jail,
Crazy Horse
began pulling away from his guards and was either accidentally stabbed
with a knife or was bayoneted by an army sentry, Private William Gentles. Mortally wounded,
Crazy Horse
died that night on September 5, 1877. After his death, his remains
were given to his elderly parents, who secretly buried the renowned
Sioux
leader somewhere in the wilds near
Nebraska’s
Red Cloud Agency.
The Dalton Gang
Bob, Grat and Emmett
Dalton were
all involved in the attempted double bank robbery in Coffeyville,
Kansas on
October 5, 1892. When Bob was recognized by a town member, an alarm
was raised, resulting in a shoot-out between the
Daltons and
the Coffeyville citizens. Bob and Grat were killed in the gunfight
along with gang members Bill Powers and Dick Broadwell. Emmett,
though seriously wounded, lived to serve 14 years in prison.
 Bob
Dalton (1868-1892)
– Killed in the
Coffeyville,
Kansas Raid on October 5, 1892, Bob
Dalton is
buried at the Coffeyville,
Kansas
Cemetery under a marker for himself, his brother Grat and Bill Powers.
Grattan “Grat” Dalton
(1865-1892)
– Killed in the Coffeyville, Kansas Raid on October 5,
1892, Bob Dalton is buried at the Coffeyville,
Kansas
Cemetery under a marker for himself, his brother Grat and Bill Powers.
 Emmett
Dalton (1871-1937) -- Emmett was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was wounded in the
Coffeyville Raid by the
Dalton Gang.
Pardoned in
1907, he married and moved to
California,
where he wrote the book When the Daltons Rode. Emmett died quietly
at his home in
Long Beach,
California
on July 13, 1937.
Emmett was cremated and his ashes were returned to
Kingfisher,
Oklahoma for burial.
William “Bill” Dalton
(1866-1894)
-- Bill, who was once
a member of the California legislature, became fed up with politics and
robbed a train with his brothers. After the death of his brothers,
he joined
Bill Doolin's gang and became the leader of the Doolin-Dalton
Gang. On June 8, 1894, a posse of lawmen approached Bill's home near Ardmore,
Oklahoma.
Bill, with a pistol in hand, jumped out of a window and ran toward the
posse, ignoring orders to halt. He was killed immediately. His wife
identified the body and shipped him to
California
for burial.
 William
M. “Bill” Doolin, a/k/a/ Will Barry
(1858-1896) – Leading a gang that robbed trains and banks in
Oklahoma,
New Mexico,
Missouri
and Kansas,
he was shot and killed by Deputy Marshal
Heck Thomas on August 24, 1896. By 1895, several of
Doolin's Gang had met their untimely ends at the
end of a sheriff's rifle. But
Doolin continued to hang on. After a jail break in 1895,
Doolin hid out in
New Mexico,
but was followed by Marshall Thomas, who shot him down on August 25, 1896.
With more than twenty gunshots in his body, he was buried at the Summit
View Cemetery in Guthrie,
Oklahoma.
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