William M. "Bill" Doolin - 1858-1896
    The son of an Arkansas farmer, Bill Doolin rode into the Oklahoma territory in 1881.  He found work at the H-X Bar ranch as a cowboy, which was where the Dalton Brothers occasionally worked.  Doolin was a skilled cowboy and was equally skilled with his six-shooter.  He was involved in a shooting in Coffeyville, KS. in 1891, he then left the ranch.  Two deputies were trying to break up a beer party, they started to pour the beer on the floor, when several cowboys, including Doolin, pulled their guns and shot the deputies to death.  Doolin fled and joined the Daltons.  That's when things turned for Doolin and he participated in many bank and train robberies with the Daltons.

In 1893, Doolin organized one of the most notorious group of outlaws in Oklahoma, Doolin's "Oklahombres".  In the gang were Bill Dalton, one of the remaining Dalton brothers, George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, Little Dick West, Dan "Dynamite Dick" Clifton, George "Red Buck" Weightman, Roy Daugherty, also know as Arkansas Tom Jones, Charley Pierce, Alf Sohn, Ole Yantis, Tulsa Jack Blake, Bob Grounds, and Little Bill Raidler.  For three wild years, the gang robbed trains, banks and stagecoaches.  The land where we held the campout served as a hideout for many of these outlaws.  Pictured in the background is a shot of the Cimarron River from the land that the outlaws occupied.