E. Dalton TLS "Its getting Along Time When the Publishers will have my Book (When The Dalton's Rode) Out" PSA/DNA Slabbed and Graded NM-MT 8.

1p, 8.5” x 11”, encapsulated to 9.75" x 13.25", Single Page TLS, Hollywood, CA, Dated April 8, 1937. Boldly signed “Emmett Dalton”, and addressed to journalist and raconteur Bertrand “Frisco Bert” Couch. Dalton writes to Couch informing him "ITS GETTING ALONG TIME WHEN THE PUBLISHERS WILL HAVE MY BOOK OUT, AT LEAST I HOPE SO." Dalton is referring to his classic "When the Dalton's Rode", which was published by The Sun Dial Press Inc, and printed in 1937. PSA/DNA has encapsulated and graded this TLS, NM-MT 8. Expected folds from mailing and slight paper loss and foxing.

Emmett Dalton (1871-1937) American outlaw, train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in America's "Wild West". Emmett's older brothers briefly worked as US deputy marshals in Indian Territory and shared a position held by their older brother Frank Dalton after he was killed in the line of duty. They hired Emmett to serve as a guard at the jail at Fort Smith, in present-day Arkansas. The elder two started working for the Osage Nation to help them set up a police force but fled after being pursued for stealing horses. Shortly after, they began to conduct robberies of banks, stagecoaches, and trains. Emmett would later join them forming The Dalton Gang.

The Dalton Gang ended on October 5, 1892, when the crew attempted to rob two banks on the same day in Coffeyville, Kansas with the hope of making enough money to flee the country. Four of the gang were killed in a gunfight with law enforcement and townsmen. Emmett Dalton survived but was severely wounded. It is said that he had the chance to escape, but upon seeing his brother Bob hurt, he turned back to help him on his horse. It was then that he was injured, receiving more than 23 gunshot wounds. Upon capture, Emmett was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in Lansing. Dalton, considered a model prisoner, was pardoned by the state governor and released after 14 years.

He would later move to Oklahoma and write two books including “When The Dalton’s Rode”, which would later be adapted into a movie of the same name directed by George Marshall and starring Randolph Scott, Kay Francis and Brian Donlevy. Universal announced the project in March 1940, nearly three years after the death of Dalton, and began filming in May 1940. The script was written by Stuart Anthony and Lester Cole.

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