Okeene, Oklahoma

The gang contained Bill Doolin, the leader; Tom Daugherty a.k.a. Arkansas Tom Jones; George Waightman a.k.a. Red Buck; Ol Yountis; Bill Raidler a.k.a. Little Bill; “Little” Dick West; “Tulsa” Jack Blake; Dan Clifton a.k.a. Dynamite Dick; Bud Smith; “Cattle” Annie McDoulet (16 years old); Jennie “Little Breeches” Stevens (15 years old); and Rosa Dunn (Rose of the Cimarron). The gang hid out at Bill and Bee Dunn’s ranch near Stillwater.

The Doolin Gang was a wild, romantic, high-living bunch. According to Fay, they stole around $169,000 and spend most of it at the Chicago Worlds Fair, which must have been pretty high living. Yountis was killed in 1892, probably. The girls were captured in 1893 or 1894 and Annie and Jennie sentenced to two years in a Massachusetts prison.

Annie died of consumption and Jennie was released a year afterward and returned to Oklahoma. Rosa Dunn, the Rose of the Cimarron, was an unusual outlaw for a woman as she was extremely beautiful. She may have been caught when Newcomb and Pierce were killed in 1895, for she ended up marrying one of the posse men and moved to Washington State where she passed away in 1959. Red Buck was killed and Raidler shot in 1895. Bill Dalton was killed the same year at Elk near Ardmore. Doolin and Dynamite Dick were killed in 1896 and Dick West in 1898.

Originally published in the “Blaine County Economic Base Report” prepared by the Research & Planning Division, Will J. Bowman, Chief; Bill Hunter, Assistant Chief and Harry Revelle Jr., Analyst; Writer.