{"id":7028,"date":"2020-02-08T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/?p=7028"},"modified":"2020-02-14T13:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:41:15","slug":"coffeyville-kansas-small-town-big-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellingfool.com\/coffeyville-kansas-small-town-big-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffeyville Kansas, Small Town, Big History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In the late 1800\u2019s the town of Coffeyville Kansas had a population of around 5,000 and was one of the most important towns in Southeastern Kansas with four railroads converging and supporting manufacturing establishments, saw mills and professional offices. By the time I arrived in May of 2016 the town population was a little over 10,000. The modern highway system has by passed the town and what is left is a small country town where most everyone knows each other and life is a little slower than the big city. Coffeyville Ks offers small town charm and a big history.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/CM_20Condon_20Bank-0007-3.jpg\" alt=\"Condon Bank Coffeyville Kansas\" width=\"679\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CM Condon Bank today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Turn back the clock to the 1890\u2019s and the area around Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri was an outlaws haven. Outlaws such as Jesse and Frank James and the Youngers robbed banks and there was no other feared gang in the region than <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/dalton-gang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the Dalton Gang<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/99IMG1Bh-M-3.jpg\" alt=\"Condon Bank Coffeyville Kansas\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CM Condon Bank at the time of the Dalton Raid- Kansas Historical Society<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">First a little history lesson. There were five Dalton brothers that were famous or infamous. In fact, there were a total of 15 children in all, two died in infancy, they had a bunch of kids back then with no television and all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The oldest brother Frank Dalton was a Deputy US Marshall working out of Ft Smith Arkansas for the infamous Judge Parker. Franks three brothers, Grat, Bob and Emmett occasionally rode posse with him while another brother, Bill, ran with the Doolin gang and the Wild Bunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Inside_20Condon_20Bank-0017-3.jpg\" alt=\"Condon Bank, Coffeyville Kansas\" width=\"679\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bank Interior Today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Brother Frank was killed in a shootout while attempting to arrest an outlaw and brothers Grat, Bob and Emmett turned to a life of crime after not being paid wages for being lawmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In 1891 Bob recruited a couple of other adventure seekers to join him and brother Emmett and later Grat joined in. Over the next couple of years, the gang robbed banks in the Oklahoma territory, hit train stations to steal the baggage, stole a few horses and generally made their mark as the bad boys in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Bob Dalton decided he would become more famous than Jesse James and rob two banks at the same time and set his sights on Coffeyville Kansas where the Condon Bank and the First National Bank were only a few hundred yards apart. While Coffeyville was a growing town at the time, it was still<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/island-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> very peaceful<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/span>and hardly anyone carried a gun, not even the Sheriff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">On the morning of Oct 5, 1892, the three Dalton brothers along with two other outlaws, Bill Powers and Dick Broadwell calmly rode into town, little did they know what await them.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Laid_20out-0014-3.jpg\" alt=\"The Dalton Gang Laid Out\" width=\"616\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Powers, aka Tim Evans, Bob Dalton, Grat Dalton, Dick Broadwell, insert is Emmett Dalton, wounded<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">When they attempted to rob the banks, one of the tellers in the Condon Bank lied to the gang by telling them the vault had a time lock and couldn\u2019t be opened for 45 minutes. This gave the townspeople enough time to mobilize and the gunfight began.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Bob_20and_20Grat_20Dalton-0015-3.jpg\" alt=\"Bob and Grat Dalton\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob and Grat Dalton in death being shown off for photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">When the smoke cleared Grat and Bob Dalton, Dick Broadwell and Bill Power were all killed and Emmett had been shot 23 times to include getting hit by buckshot in his back. Emmet survived and was sentenced to <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/welcome-to-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">life in prison<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong> getting paroled after almost 15 years. Emmett went on to become a successful real estate developer in California, authored a couple of books about the gang and even acted in a few movies.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dalton_20Gang_20grave-0004-3.jpg\" alt=\"Dalton Gang Grave\" width=\"679\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dalton Gang graves the pipe is the original hitching post where they tied up their horses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Today the Condon Bank sits prominently in the <span style=\"color: #000000;\">town square <\/span>and is open to visitors with photos and some items of the period. Part of the building is occupied by the Coffeyville Visitors Center and they are more than happy to give you a free tour of the facilities, tell you all about the day that changed their town and point out <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/how-to-find-adventure-in-any-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other interesting sites you can visit<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/City_20Jail-0025-3.jpg\" alt=\"Coffeyville Kansas Jail\" width=\"679\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coffeyville Jail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The remnants of the old jail where the gang was laid out for photos is still standing and you can reach it by walking down a narrow alley known as \u201cDeath Alley\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dalton_20Museum-0018-3.jpg\" alt=\"Dalton Museum, Coffeyville Kansas\" width=\"679\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dalton Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">A few hundred yards from the Condon Bank is the Dalton Gang Museum. The Museum has some of the bank doors, complete with bullet holes, and displays of other important things and people that made Coffeyville Kansas home. You can take a short drive to the Coffeyville cemetery and see the gang&#8217;s final resting place.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingfool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Walter_20Johnson-0021-3.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Johnson Hall of Fame\" width=\"298\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter &#8220;The Big Train&#8221; Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Coffeyville has had some other notable citizens to include Walter \u201cThe Big Train\u201d Johnson, baseball Hall of Famer and was the only player to have 3,000 strikeouts for over 50 years, Phil Ehart, drummer for the rock band Kansas, Johnny Rutherford, professional race car driver and several others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It is the Coffeyville Raid by the Dalton Gang though that cements this town in history and makes it a great place to visit, spend the day and learn about life in the 1800\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Coffeyville Kansas is located on Hwy 169 in Southeast Kansas just across the Oklahoma border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1800\u2019s the town of Coffeyville Kansas had a population of around 5,000 and was one of the most important towns in Southeastern Kansas with four railroads converging and supporting manufacturing establishments, saw mills and professional offices. 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