Into the Sunset

Emmett Dalton and the End of the Dalton Gang

Ian W. Shaw (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2023
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-3549-8 (ISBN)

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Tells the remarkable story of Emmett Dalton and how he and his brothers drifted from one side of the law to the other in the frontier lands of the late nineteenth century. It is the story of shoot-’em-ups and train robberies, of the closing frontier, and of what desperate men in desperate times do to survive.

On October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead and three others were seriously injured. Four of the dead were members of the notorious Dalton Gang: Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, and two brothers, Bob and Grat Dalton. A fifth outlaw, twenty-one-year-old Emmett Dalton, was captured alive but with twenty-three bullet and buckshot wounds.Emmett Dalton not only survived Coffeyville but prospered. After serving a fourteen-year prison term at the Kansas state penitentiary, he moved to Southern California. In a world completely foreign to him, he published two accounts of his and his brothers’ exploits (both of which were made into movies) and became a celebrity who worked with the first generation of Hollywood cowboys and one of Los Angeles’s most respected property developers.

Ian Shaw’s Into the Sunset is the remarkable story of Emmett Dalton and how he and his brothers drifted from one side of the law to the other in the frontier lands of the late nineteenth century. It is the story of shoot-’em-ups and train robberies, of the closing frontier, and of what desperate men in desperate times do to survive. Following Dalton to California, Shaw tells the story of how Emmett was able to live a life that would become the stuff of legend and achieve the level of success that was once the object of each member of the Dalton Gang.

Ian W. Shaw has published eight books of Australian and military history, including The Rag Tag Fleet: The Unknown Story of the Australian Men and Boats That Helped Win the War in the Pacific and Operation Babylift: The Incredible Story of the Inspiring Australian Women Who Rescued Hundreds of Orphans at the End of the Vietnam War.

Preface
Introduction
1. Youth, War, and Alcohol
2. Business Success and Statewide Office
3. Running for Governor
4. 1963’s Political Battles: Liquor by the Drink and the Shaff Plan
5. Helping the Downtrodden
6. Reapportionment and Reform
7. LBJ’s “Favorite Governor” and Reelection
8. The Historic 1965 Iowa Legislature
9. Where Angels Fear to Tread
10. Vietnam, State Politics, and Aid to Alcoholics
11. Third-Term Reelection
12. Presidential Confrontation and State Reform
13. Civil Rights, Crisis Conferences, and a Senate Candidacy
14. Political Upheaval in Iowa and the Nation
15. The 1968 Democratic Convention and Senate Race
16. The Hughes Act and Federal Aid to Alcoholics
17. Angry Dove on the National State
18. Democratic Party Reformer and Presidential Candidate
19. Secret Bombing over North Vietnam
20. Election Defeats and Victories and a Maverick War Critic
21. Leaving the Senate and Welcoming Charles Colson
22. Life Past Politics—Almost
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2023
Verlagsort	Kansas
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7006-3549-1 / 0700635491
ISBN-13	978-0-7006-3549-8 / 9780700635498
Zustand	Neuware