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Date de naissance

3 May 1871, Belton, Missouri, USA

Date de mort

13 July 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA

Mini Biographie

Emmett was the youngest brother of the outlaw Dalton gang notorious for robbing trains and banks in the Midwest during the late 1800s (interestingly, the brothers started their life of crime with a failed attempt at breaking into the safe on a Southern Pacific Railroad train in 1891 near San Luis Obispo, California). After being apprehended and nearly killed in the gang's futile attempt to rob two banks simultaneously on the now-infamous date of October 5, 1892, in his hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas, Emmett served nearly 15 years of a life sentence in prison. He was pardoned in 1907, in part because while in prison he found religion and rehabilitated himself to a righteous and law-abiding man. Upon his release from prison, he married his childhood sweetheart and set out to rehabilitate the world -- at least to rehabilitate what he perceived as the world's proclivity to elevate outlaws to the status of heroes. Eventually, his message came to Hollywood where he acted in and consulted on several films about the wild west -- at least two films about his own folly as an outlaw. He also wrote the book "When the Daltons Rode," which was the basis of the 1940 movie of that same title. His exploits in life also include adventures in selling real estate and in advocating and campaigning for prison reform. He died in 1937 in Los Angeles, not too far from where Wyatt Earp (who had also found a place for himself in Hollywood) had also lived and died.

IMDb Mini Biographie par: Patrick King

Marié(e) à

Julia Johnson

(1907 - 13 July 1937) (his death)

Anecdotes

Part of the notorious Dalton gang.

The simultaneous bank robberies in Coffeyville, Kansas, on October 5, 1892, that resulted in the deaths of all the entire Dalton gang -- except for Emmett -- yielded a grand total of $21.98.

Emmett Dalton lived out his the twilight of his life in South Central Los Angeles, just a few miles away from another notorious figure in Western folklore, Wyatt Earp.

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