The C.M. Condon & Company Bank at the time of the Raid. This bank & the First National across Union Street were the Daltons twin targets.
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Osage Chief Black Dog gave his name to the earliest known road across Kay County. It was also known as the Manka Shonka Trail. Chief Black Dog was born near St. Louis in the late 1700's. Though he claimed the right to the title "chief" by birth, his height, seven feet, and his weight, three hundred pounds, probably reinforced his claim. Black Dog frequently led his people west from the vicinity of Baxter Springs, Kansas, to the Salt Plains, in order to hunt buffalo and raid other tribes. The route went west from Salt Creek and crossed Kay County north of present day Kaw City. It then proceeded up the Salt Fork River to the Salt Plains. In 1803, Black Dog moved his village of four hundred people south to join those of Chief Clermont; they reestablished their home at Pasuga near Claremore. From there Black Dog opened a new trail west to the Salt Plains hunting ground: it went up the Caney River, across the ridge to Buck Creek and down Buck Creek to the Arkansas River. After fording the Arkansas, the trail led west along the Salt Fork to the Salt Plains. The Osage hunters carried buffalo hides and tongues home, over this trail, to trade with French trader Pierre Chouteau for manufactured goods. The trail also served a ceremonial purpose. When an Osage died, it was customary to avenge his death by sacrificing the scalp of an enemy over the grave of the loved one. Close relatives of the dead, then, often traveled west over the Black Dog Trail in search of candidates for the sacrifice.
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This house, just south of the Coffeyville Stockyards, was home to the Dalton brothers for a time. It still stands.
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This settlement was founded in 1869 as an Indian trading post by Col. James A. Coffey, serving the population across the border in what was then the Indian Territory. The town was stimulated in 1871 by being made a stop on the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad, which connected it to other markets & developments. With the arrival of the railroad, a young surveyor, Napoleon B. Blanton,
was dispatched to lay out the town.
The naming of the town was left to the toss of a coin between Col. Coffey & U.S. Army Captain Blanton. Coffey won the toss & the town was officially named Coffeyville.
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