Dalton Defenders Museum
The museum, owned and operated by the non-profit Coffeyville Historical Society, is the realization of a dream of many Coffeyville citizens who understood the importance of collecting items not only relating to the Dalton Raid but also relating to early-day life in the Coffeyville area. In the museum, which is just east of the Plaza area, are collections of the following:
- Mementos of early-day Coffeyville
- Mementos of Wendell Willkie - who lived and taught school in Coffeyville
- Mementos of Walter Johnson - who lived in Coffeyville
- Mementos of the Dalton Raid
Facts on the Dalton Raid
The Dalton Raid - the last great gun battle between the outlaws of the old Southwest and the forces of law and order - took place in Coffeyville, Kansas the morning of October 5, 1892 in the Plaza area where this Dalton Defenders Museum is now located.
The gun battle lasted just 12 minutes. Eight men - four on each side - were killed, and four, one of them a bandit, were wounded. Citizens killed in the Raid were:
- Charles T. Connelly, a 46-year-old school teacher who also served as the Marshal.
- Charles Brown, 59, a shoemaker.
- George B. Cubine, 36, another shoemaker.
- Lucius M. Baldwin, 23-year-old clerk in the Read Brothers store.
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