
Description
Scarce imprint of Vol. 2 of ‘Reckless Ralph’s Twenty-five Cent Novel Library’, 6pp. 8vo., Grafton, MA: Ralph F. Cummings, 1935, featuring the story ‘Prison Delivery’ by Emmett Dalton, telling of the incarceration of the last surviving member of the Dalton Gang. Near fine. Dalton (1871 - 1937) was an American outlaw who, with brothers Grattan, Robert and William, staged spectacular hold-ups of trains and banks in California and the Midwest. The Dalton brothers' first train hold-up was in Alila, Ca. in 1891 and ended in failure. They soon gathered a group of gunmen and thieves to form the Dalton Gang and embarked on a murderous train-robbing rampage, evading hundreds of lawmen using their dozens of informers and hideouts. Finally, the gang sought to rob two banks at once in their old home town of Coffeyville, Kansas. Grat and Bob fell in a hail of gunfire, and Emmett was captured after being shot twenty times. After 15 years in prison, he was released and became a model citizen.
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116: Militaria & Autograph Auction 2026 Day 2
Mar 27, 2026 10:00 AM EDTElkton, MD, United States
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