Dalton Gang's Last Raid

Accounts disagree about who rode into Longview. The Oklahoma Historical Society says Bill Dalton might also have been a member of the gang, and that he was shot dead by a posse near Ardmore on June 8, 1894. Nine deputy U.S. marshals were indicted for his killing in 1896, though apparently none was ever tried. The Gregg County Historical Museum, which keeps the holdup note in a former bank vault, says Jim Nite was captured and sent to prison, and that Judd Nite was killed later in a Central Texas shootout.

What the plaque says

Dalton Gang's Last Raid A bloody day (May 23, 1894) in early Longview. Bill Dalton, leader of armed gang presented a note for money at First National Bank. A gunfight erupted when Sheriff Jack Howard, City Marshall Mat Muckleroy and citizens resisted. Three local men-- J. W. McQueen, Geo. Buckingham, Charles Learn-- and one outlaw died of gunshot wounds. Bank president J. R. Clemmons and cashier Tom Clemmons were held as hostages for a short time as outlaws made getaway into Oklahoma. Forged $20 bank notes led to capture of survivors. (1967)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• East Texas Oil Museum — 11 mi
  A Kilgore College museum that rebuilds the 1930s oil boom in a full-scale Boomtown with a general store, drugstore and newspaper office, plus dioramas, films and antiques given by East Texans.
• New London Museum and Cenotaph — 21 mi
  A volunteer-run museum beside the pink granite cenotaph for the March 1937 school gas explosion, holding a model of the school, a blackboard from that day and an odorizer device.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 22 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Harrison County Historical Museum — 22 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.

More markers nearby

• Site of James S. Hogg Newspaper — steps away
• The Courthouses of Gregg County — steps away
• O. H. Methvin, Sr., Founder of Longview — steps away
• General John Gregg — steps away