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The Dalton Gang Attempted to Hold Up Two Banks at the Same Time When Five Members of the Gang Rode Into the Town of Coffeyville, Kansas. It Ended Badly. October 5, 1892.

Image: Memento Mori of the Dalton Gang following the 1892 Coffeyville, Kansas raid. Left to right: Bill Powers; Bob Dalton; Grat Dalton, Dick Broadwell. (Public Domain) On this day in history, the Dalton Gang attempted to hold up two banks at the same time when five members of the Dalton Gang (Grat Dalton, Emmett Dalton, Bob Dalton, Bill Power, and Dick Broadwell) rode into the town of…

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Old movie theater schedules are fascinating just to see the variety of movies circulating at any given time. So many left almost no trace on movie history.

The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Kansas, January 19, 1897

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“That seems so funny to me.”

I’m also absolutely fascinated where Florence got the idea that Santa lived in Spitzbergen as I’ve never seen another Dear Santa letter addressed there.

There is a local legend in Svalbard that Santa lives in an old mine shaft on the island, but as far as I can find it was not a commonly known story in 1905 - and none of Flora’s relatives were from Scandinavia.

My best guess is that Florence may have read The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson, wherein the Snow Queen has a palace on Spitzbergen and just assumed that Santa lived there as well.

(source: The Coffeyville Daily Journal, December 19, 1905.)

Bucket of Blood Street is located off U.S. Route 66 in the Old Downtown district of Holbrook, Arizona. Bucket of Blood Street is one block south of the historical Santa Fe Railroad station on Navajo Road that was built in 1882. Holbrook was founded in the 1880s as a railroad stop. At the time, the desert town was mainly populated by ranchers, outlaws, cowboys and cattle rustlers, and was known for its gun fights. Holbrook had a reputation as a "town too tough for women and churches".

Terrell's Cottage Saloon had existed on the street for years before coming to be known as Bucket of Blood Saloon, after a violent fight took place resulting in the death of two men. The saloon was popular with cowboys and ruffians; fistfights and gunfights often broke out there. The year 1886 was a particularly violent one and the town lost about ten percent of its population. A fight broke out at the saloon during a card game between rival cattle rustlers, including wranglers from the Hashknife Outfit of the Aztec Land and Cattle Company. The result of the fight was described as though a bucket of blood had been spilled on the floor.

A newspaper account describes another event on January 19, 1896, when the proprietor of the saloon shot and killed two men playing cards: "Suddenly a dispute arose and angry words passed between them." The manager of the saloon, Harry Donnelly, used a revolver to force another man, George C. Hiatt, a barber, into the street and shot him "through the heart" in front of the town drug store. Donnelly was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hofford who was acting as the county sheriff, as Commodore Perry Owens was out of town at the time. The newspaper report claims that when the widow Hiatt heard the news she fell "lifeless to the floor". The saloon was owned at the time by F. J. Wattron, however Donnelly managed it.

Albert F. Potter's memoir, written around 1888, describes the events leading to the name Bucket of Blood somewhat differently. He wrote of participating in a "roundup on the Little Colorado River range … 12 miles east of Holbrook." At sunrise two horsemen were seen riding towards his party from the direction of Holbrook. One man shouted, "Here we come! All shot to pieces." The head of the other man was wrapped in bloody bandages covering a serious wound. Potter went on to write: "We recognized them as Joe Crawford, a cowboy who had worked for the Aztec Land and Cattle Company known as the Hashknife Outfit, and George Bell, a gambler. Crawford was so weak [from his wounds] that he had to be lifted from the horse he was riding. We laid him on the horse wrangler's bed and with a handful of flour from the cook's bread pan I plastered the wound on his head and stopped the bleeding. Examination showed that a bullet had also passed through the cuff of his shirt and coat sleeve, and just grazed the side of his body. Scars of other old wounds showed that this was not Crawford's first fight."

Potter then describes Bell's involvement in an incident during a card game with a man named Ramon Lopez, during which Lopez struck Crawford in the head with his six-shooter gun. Crawford retaliated by drawing his gun and killing Lopez. Shooting then broke out in the saloon, and Crawford killed another man, after which "Crawford and Bell then made their getaway". Potter went on to write that he believed Joe Crawford "was in fact Grat Dalton, a member of the notorious Dalton Gang of outlaws who was later killed during an attempted bank robbery at Coffeyville, Kansas". Potter concluded that this was the backstory to the naming of Bucket of Blood Saloon.

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Coffeyville, Kansas

built in 1903

Eva Jessye

Singer, composer, and choral director Eva Jessye was born in 1895 in Coffeyville, Kansas. In 1926, Jessye founded the Dixie Jubilee Choir, which would later be renamed the Eva Jessye Choir. The choir recorded for major record labels and performed at the 1963 March on Washington. In 1935, George Gershwin selected Jessye as choral director for Porgy and Bess, and she would be involved with nearly every production of the show for the next thirty years. During her career, she also published a collection of traditional songs and composed three oratorios.

Eva Jessye died in 1992 at the age of 97.

Image source: New York Public Library

The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Kansas, April 30, 1896

[During] the busy holiday season of 2006[, a] temporary employee in the Coffeyville, Kansas, fulfillment center showed up at the start of his shift and left at the end of it, but strangely, he was not logging any actual work in the hours in between. Amazon’s time clocks were not yet linked to the system that tracked productivity, so the discrepancy went unnoticed for at least a week.

Finally someone uncovered the scheme. The worker had surreptitiously tunneled out a cavern inside an eight-foot-tall pile of empty wooden pallets in a far corner of the fulfillment center. Inside, completely blocked from view, he had created a cozy den and furnished it with items purloined from Amazon’s plentiful shelves. There was food, a comfortable bed, pictures ripped from books adorning the walls—and several pornographic calendars. Brian Calvin, the general manager of the Coffeyville FC, busted the worker in his hovel and marched him out the door. The man left without argument and walked to a nearby bus stop; sheepish, one might imagine, but perhaps also just a little bit triumphant.

Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Corgi, 2013), p. 241.

LBTS Historical Figure Doodle: Bob Dalton

This concept was in my head for a while, but after seeing @lackadaisycats's short film I was motivated to finally draw it. So, here's the first Life Beside The Tracks Doodle for the expanded lore; a portrait of outlaw Bob Dalton.

Bio about Figure: Robert Rennick Dalton the leader of the infamous Dalton gang which operated between 1890 to 1892. Robbing trains and banks, they mainly worked in California, Kansas, Oklahoma Territory, and Indian Territory before Bob, brother Grat, and other members Bill Powers & Dick Broadwell were shot during an attempt to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas. Only Emmett Dalton survived and pleaded guilty of second degree murder.

Context within the LBTS World: Because this series takes place within the Central Valley of California, the Daltons are a natural fit. Mainly since they lived in the Valley when they started robbing trains. There's even a mountain in Fresno County named after the Daltons.

When it comes to interacting with any LBTS characters, they may encounter the wolf outlaw (named John Evans after local train robbers John Sontag and Chris Evans)

or US Marshall Jonathan Bitner (Becky's Great, great, great grandpa).

In short, the Daltons are a natural fit for historical figures that meet anyone in my comic verse. If anyone wants to see more historical figures from Californias history in the LBTS world, toss me a suggestion as a comment. It's fun to create furry/anthro portraits of historical figures for the research and creativity around a portrait.

The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Kansas, January 23, 1897

Members of the notorious Dalton gang were killed October 5, 1892, during attempted bank robberies in Coffeyville, Kansas.

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