Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Cabinet Card Photograph with Gratton Dalton, chest-up in an oval with wild flowers superimposed surround him. The sepia image is photographer ID’d as Monroe, Mound Valley Kansas. Clean. Gratton Hanley "Grat" Dalton (1861-1892) was an American outlaw in the American Old West. After being arrested for the Alila (Earlimart) train robbery, Grat Dalton was convicted and was being held in the Visalia jail. Grat escaped from jail with two other men, on September 20, 1891. At first it was thought that the jailer helped in the escape, but later evidence showed just how the escape was accomplished. A bar from the cell had been cut free with a hacksaw blade and a broom handle darkened with soap and soot was used as a temporary replacement so it wouldn't be noticed. just a year leter, Grat was killed in the failed bank robbery attempt at Coffeyville, an audacious plan which involved the daring daylight robbery of two Coffeyville, Kansas, banks at the same time. The citizens succesfully destroyed the gang killing every member except for Emmett Dalton. But their victory was not without a price: the Dalton’s took four townspeople to their graves with them. After recovering from serious wounds, Emmett was tried and sentenced to life in prison. After 14 years he won parole, and he eventually leveraged his cachet as a former Wild West bandit into a position as a screenwriter in Hollywood.
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