Outlaw Battle

The one outlaw taken at Ingalls was Roy Daugherty, who rode as Arkansas Tom Jones. From the top floor of the Pierce O.K. Hotel he shot Deputy Marshal Thomas Hueston, and he was captured only after Deputy Marshal Jim Masterson threw dynamite into his hiding place. Sentenced to fifty years, he was paroled in 1910 after his two preacher brothers campaigned for him, ran a restaurant in Drumright, went to Hollywood hoping to act in westerns and then robbed banks in Missouri. Joplin police killed him on August 16, 1924, the gang's last survivor.

What the plaque says

Outlaw Battle Site about 3 miles S. E. A battle at Ingalls, on Sept. 1, 1893, between a Dalton-Doolin gang and U. S. marshals was a climax in bringing law and order to Oklahoma and Indian terri- tories. Three marshals and two residents were killed; several persons were wounded; one outlaw was captured. Ingalls was once the home of "Rose of Cimarron." Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission, 1956

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pawnee Nation Museum — 16 mi
  The Pawnee Nation's own museum in Pawnee, keeping the Nation's objects and the record of a military tradition it traces from the Pawnee Scouts of 1864 to the code talkers of World War II.
• Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School — 27 mi
  Perry's museum of the Cherokee Outlet, in a town that was a land office on bare prairie the morning of September 16, 1893 and held some 25,000 people that night.

More markers nearby

• Oak Park Cemetery — 6.5 mi
• Stillwater — 9.1 mi
• Boundary Line 1889 and 1893 — 11 mi
• World Famous Athlete Jim Thorpe — 11 mi