Bill Doolin & the Wild Bunch
Timeline
| 1858 | William (Bill) Doolin was born on a farm in northeastern Johnson County, AK |
| 1882 | Goes to work for Oscar D. Halsell as a cowboy in Oklahoma. |
| July 1891 | Bill Doolin and other cowhands gets into shooting scrap with constables near Coffeyville, KS. |
| Sept. 1891 | Riding with the Daltons he participates in train robbery at Leliaetta, I.T. |
| Oct. 12, 1892 | John J Kloehr, hero of Coffeyville Raid, receives letter threatening
citizens of Coffeyville for killing the Dalton brothers. Bill Doolin is
suspected as author. Bill Doolin, Newcomb, Pierce, & Ol Yantis suspected in Caney, KS train robbery. Take: $1,500 |
| Nov. 1, 1892 | 3 masked men rob the Ford County Bank in Spearville, KS. They were
Bill Doolin, Bitter Creek Newcomb, and Ol Yantis. Take: $1,697 Emmett Dalton arraigned in district court for his participation in Coffeyville Raid. Pleads guilty to second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. |
| Nov. 30, 1892 | Marshals shoot and kill Ol Yantis at his farm near Orlando, O.T. |
| Late 1892 | Bill Dalton joins up with Bill Doolin's Wild Bunch. also joining up were Bill Blake, alias Tulsa Jack, Dan Clifton, alias Dynamite Dick, and George "Red Buck" Waightman |
| March 14, 1893 | Bill Doolin and Edith Elleworth of Ingalls, O.T. are married in Kingfisher O.T. |
| June 11, 1893 | Five members of the gang (Doolin, Dalton, Newcomb, Tulsa Jack, and Dynamite Dick) rob the Santa Fe train near Cimarron, KS. Take: $1,000. Doolin wounded in getaway. |
| Sept. 1, 1893 | Ingalls shootout. 3 marshals killed. 2 towns-people are killed and 1 wounded. 2 bandit are wounded. Arkansas Tom is captured. |
| Jan.23, 1894 | The Farmers and Citizens Bank in Pawnee, O.T. is robbed of $262 by Doolin, Newcomb, and Tulsa Jack |
| Early 1894 | William F. Raidler (aka Little Bill) and Richard West (aka Little Dick) join the Wild Bunch |
| March 13,1894 | Two men rob the railroad station at Woodward, O.T. Believed to be Bill
Doolin and Bill Dalton Take: undisclosed amount |
| April 1, 1894 | Bill Dalton and Bitter Creek Newcomb get into shootout with Deputy W.H. (Bill) Carr at Sacred Heart, O.T. Newcomb and Carr are wounded but both would survive. |
| May 10, 1894 | 7 members of Wild Bunch (Doolin, Pierce, Tulsa Jack, Dynamite Dick, Red Buck, Raidler,and West) rob the bank in Southwest City, MO. In shootout with townsfolk 1 bandit is wounded, 1 citizen is killed, and 3 are wounded. Take: between $3,000 and $4,000 |
| May 17,1894 | Arkansas Tom Jones stands trail for murder. May 19 jury returns verdict
of guilty of manslaughter in 1st degree. May 21 Jones is sentence to 50 years in prison at Lansing |
| May 23, 1894 | Bill Dalton, Jim Wallace, Big Asa Knight, Jim Knight, and George Bennett rob the First National Bank in Longveiw, TX. Bennett is killed in attempted getaway. 1 citizen is killed and 3 are wounded.Take: $2,000 |
| June 8, 1894 | Bill Dalton is killed by Deputy Lawson (Loss) Hart near Ardmore, I.T. |
| Nov. 24, 1894 | Failed attempt to rob Panhandle Express at Canadian, TX. County Sheriff Tom McGee killed |
| March 3, 1895 | Deputy Marshals raid the Dunn cave hideout. Use dynamite in efforts to capture the outlaws. |
| April 3, 1895 | The Rock Island train was robbed near Dover, O.T. by Pierce, Raidler, Newcomb, Tulsa Jack, and Red Buck.Take: $1437.50 |
| May 1, 1895 | Bitter Creek Newcomb and Charlie Pierce are slain while sleeping at the Dunn Ranch by Bill, John, and Dal Dunn. |
| July-Dec.1895 | Bill Doolin offers to surrender to Marshal Nix three different times in exchange for a light sentence to robbery. Offer is rejected. |
| July 1895 | Doolin leaves territory and joins Little Dick West in New Mexico. |
| Sept. 6,1895 | Bill Raidler is seriously wounded and captured by Marshal Bill Tilghman near Pawhuska, O.T. He stood trail for his part in the Dover robbery and was found guilty, sentenced to 10 years, he was paroled in 1903 and returned to OK |
| Dec. 1895 | Deputy Marshal Tilghman learns that Bill Doolin and family are living in Burden, KS. |
| Jan. 15,1896 | Bill Doolin is arrested by Bill Tilghman in a hot spa in Eureka Springs, AK Taken back to Guthrie, O.T. |
| March 4, 1896 | Red Buck Waightman killed in gun battle with deputy marshals.near Arapaho, O.T. |
| June 1896 | Dynamite Dick Clifton is arrested on a whiskey charge in Texas. Deputy Marshal Frank Canton takes him back to Oklahoma on a murder charge. Deliever him to Guthrie jail on June 22. |
| July 5, 1896 | Bill Doolin, Dynamite Dick, and 12 other prisoners escape from Guthrie jail |
| Aug. 24, 1896 | Bill Doolin is ambushed and killed by Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas's posse at Lawson, O.T. |
| Nov. 7, 1897 | Dynamite Dick Clifton was killed by deputies near Chectoah. |
| April 8, 1898 | Little Dick West was killed by Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas's posse. |
