July 16, 2006

Born in 1858 near Clarksville (Johnson County), William “Bill” Doolin entered the pages of history as a member of the “most cold blooded robbers in the West”: the Dalton Gang. After uneventful employment as a cowboy in Oklahoma, he joined the Daltons in 1891 for a string of robberies but decided against joining the gang on the ill-fated Coffeyville, Kansas, job, which only one of the gang survived. He formed his own gang but was cornered and killed by a posse in 1896.