During the late 1800s, the Dalton Gang was a group of thieves infamous for robbing banks, stagecoaches, and trains. Bob, Emmett and Gratton “Grat” were three of James Lewis and Adeleine Dalton’s 10 sons who founded the Dalton Gang. 

The band of brothers was assisted by a few other criminal cohorts. Brother Bill Dalton had his own gang but was killed by deputies in 1894 when they tracked him down after he held up the First National Bank of Longview, Texas.

The Daltons weren’t always such a villainous clan. Older brother Frank Dalton had a respectable job as a deputy U.S. Marshal but was killed in 1887 by Oklahoma whiskey runners. Grat took Frank’s job and recruited Bob and Emmett. But when the trio was caught abusing their powers, they switched careers and moved on to cattle rustling and robbery.