text: [Themes: edutainment]
  
  You decide to go with Ol to his sister's farm near the little community of Orlando in the Territory. You both spend nearly a month relaxing there until one afternoon you see two men approaching the small farm from the front. "Ol! Dan Dalton!" one of the men shouts. "We know you're in there. We're lawmen, we've got the building surrounded and if you come out with your arms raised no one will get hurt." You and Ol glance at each other nervously, the small farm only has one door facing the two lawmen with windows either side, though there are a few back windows.
  
  "What are you going to do?" you ask Ol who thinks for a moment. "I'm going to go out and tell them I'm going to surrender and when they're not ready I'm going to draw my pistol and let them have it. If you come with me I reckon there's a good chance we can get both of them." You consider his request: it's risky but it could work. An alternative option is to open a back window, climb out and take a chance escaping on foot.
  
  > Try slipping out a back window
  You and Ol agree to try your different plans and while Ol walks out the front door you open a back window and climb out. Cautiously you jog towards some nearby trees, expecting a bullet to be fired at you at any moment. You nearly jump out of your skin when a gunshot rings out but when it is almost instantly followed by several more you realize the shots are coming from the front of the house. Escaping the area you rejoin your companions in Ingalls where you learn your worst fears are correct: Ol Yantis was shot dead by the lawmen he tried to fight. You hide out in Ingalls until the following summer when The Wild Bunch rides again.
  
  In the last six months you and your fellow outlaws have recruited four new gang members, bringing your gang strength up to nine. There is Dynamite Dick, an explosives expert with an impressive nickname, Red Buck, a grim and dour man, Tulsa Jack, a good friend of Bill Doolin's and Arkansas Tom, a sharp-shooting well-dressed young man. Together the nine of you plan your first robbery in Kansas and in the summer of 1893 you strike.
  
  One summer morning the nine of you board a train at Cimarron in Kansas and while the new recruits get the driver to stop the train and Bitter Creek and Charley Pierce guard the passengers you and the two Bill's make your way to the Express Carriage. You calmly empty the safe before you all dismount, run to your horses, mount up and ride away. On the ride you count the money you have stolen and find you have gotten away with $1,000, making your share $100.
  
  Unfortunately you do not get clean away, that afternoon as you are resting a posse of lawmen suddenly gallop over a nearby ridge. All of your mount up and firing pistols and rifles at each other you and your pursuers engage in a running battle for over a mile. There are no casualties on either side except Bill Doolin who is unlucky enough to be shot in the foot by a rifle shell, a painful but non-serious wound. Easily escaping the nine of you ride back to Ingalls unaware that an even deadlier enemy is in pursuit...
  
  > The Battle of Ingalls
  One autumn morning you and The Wild Bunch ride into Ingalls. Bill Doolin leads the way, hobbling ad wincing from his injured foot, while you and your brother Bill follow behind talking. Following you is Bitter Creek and his mute companion Charley Pierce while the newer recruits bunch together, Tulsa Jack is exchanging jokes with Dynamite Dick while Red Buck rides on in silence and Arkansas Tom cradles his rifle. You are as dangerous an outlaw gang as any that roamed the West.
  
  In town you agree to split up: Arkansas Tom is tired and is going over to the little community's hotel to sleep. Bitter Creek offers to saddle all the horses in the stable while the rest of the gang head into a saloon operated by your friend Murray. You need to choose who to follow.
  
  > follow Arkansas Tom to the hotel to rest
  You and Arkansas Tom split off from the others and walk into the hotel, check in and walk up the stairs chatting. You have just reached your room when you hear the unmistakable sound of pistol shots from the street, racing to the window you see Bitter Creek galloping his horse down the street away from a man who is shooting at him, blood streaming from your friend's leg. You race to Arkansas Tom's room to find him standing by the window firing his rifle into the street at lawmen who are firing from cover at the saloon where your friends are.
  
  "Come on, we need to get out of here," you shout to Tom.
  
  "This is a great position," Tom yells back. "I'm going to stay here and cover the others."
  
  > join Arkansas Tom at the window shooting at the lawmen
  You join Arkansas Tom at the window, grab one of his rifle's and peer down for a target. You spot one: a young lawman sheltering behind a tree with his side exposed to you. You take careful aim and fire, your bullet hitting the man in the left side, passing through his body and blasting out his right. The man falls down and doesn't get up again.
  
  Suddenly your brother Bill, Bill Doolin, Charley, Red Buck, Tulsa Jack and Dynamite Dick all burst from the town's stables mounted on horses. The lawmen, who are still firing at the saloon, scramble around to fire at them, hitting your brother Bill's horse in the head. Bill jumps from the saddle, turns, shoots a lawman dead and scrambles onto the back of Bill Doolin's horse. You watch as your friends escape.
  
  The lawmen now turn their attention to you and begin firing up at the window, forcing you and Arkansas Tom away from it. You hear running feet on the stairs outside the hotel door and then bullets begin to hit the door, forcing you to take shelter under the bed. You are both trapped and have no way of escaping.
  
  "We surrender," Arkansas Tom shouts loudly.
  
  The shooting stops, there is a pause, and then suddenly the hotel door spectacularly explodes inwards in a blinding flash of light that brings down the roof, burying you both helplessly beneath the rubble, your guns lost in the chaos. Several armed lawmen race through the ruins their dynamite created and quickly capture you both.
  
  It is some consolation to you that your companions all succeeded in escaping, though both Bitter Creek and Dynamite Dick were wounded in all the gunfire. You and Arkansas Tom are not so lucky, you are both quickly tried and convicted for the deaths of three lawman and one civilian who were killed in the gunfight and both of you are sentenced to terms of life imprisonment.
  
  It seems that your outlaw careers are over but then, after a few years, fate reunites you with your companions.
  
  > Prison
  By the summer of 1896 the Wild Bunch is virtually destroyed: the only gang member who remains at large is Little Dick West; everyone else is dead or imprisoned. Your brothers Bob, Grat and Bill are dead, your friends Bitter Creek and Charley Pierce are dead. You yourself are facing a long jail term with no hope in sight.
  
  Then the Federal authorities make the decision to move you and the surviving members of the Wild Bunch to new a prison in Oklahoma City and you find yourself reunited with the last members of the Wild Bunch. Your brother Emmett is there, weak after surviving 23 gunshot wounds, Lawman killer Arkansas Tom Jones, minor gang member Jim Knight, Little Bill Raidler, who was shot 3 times and severely wounded in his capture, the clever Dynamite Dick and, most of all, your unofficial leader Bill Doolin are all reunited.
  
  Inevitably plans for an escape are quickly made, though Emmett and Little Bill have no interest due to the severity of their wounds while Arkansas Tom and Jim Knight want to turn their backs on the outlaw life, certain it will get them killed. Bill and Dynamite Dick concoct a plan to have a friend smuggle pistols into them, take the guard hostage, make him unlock the cell and then imprison him in it and then make their escape from the prison. It is a bold but risky plan and the two outlaws ask you to join them. Your brother Emmett is against it, warning you that even if it is successful the chances are you will be hunted down and killed on the outside.
  
  > join the prison break
  You agree to join the jailbreak and Bill makes all the arrangements. He has a pistol smuggled into him and at the right moment he trains it on a guard, forces him to surrender his keys and gun, which he gives to you, unlocks the cell and locks the guard inside. After taking a series of guards hostage you and your companions succeed in escaping from the prison on stolen horses.
  
  You and your companions are elated but you quickly agree it is best if you all split up: Bill plans to hide out with his wife in Lawson while Dynamite Dick intends to lie low in Checotah. You need to join one of them.
  
  > go with Bill to Lawson
  You and Bill hide out with Bill's wife in various hideouts around the settlement of Lawson but the law is never far behind you. One night the two of you are riding your horses from one hideout to another when suddenly a posse of a dozen lawmen spring up from the ground before you and shout for you both to surrender.
  
  > turn your horse around and ride for dear life
  You jerk your horse away and have barely started to ride when the posse open fire. Bullets hit both your horse's rear legs making it collapse to the ground and spilling you from the saddle. By good luck you land next to a deep drainage ditch and scrambling into it you race down it while the posse pumps bullet after bullet into your friend Bill.
  
  Somehow you escape. The ditch runs out near a line of trees and springing out of it you race into the trees and through them, bullets from the posse hitting the trees and whistling by all around you. You keep running and running and evade capture. For the next year you roam the wilds, living like an animal in the most basic of habitats before finally your remaining outlaw friends get a letter to you inviting you to a meeting in Woodward.
  
  > The last outlaws
  On the first day of August you, Dynamite Dick Clifton and Little Dick West assemble in Woodward. You are all that remains of the once-great Wild Bunch and your years on the run and suffering have aged you all prematurely. Little Dick brings with him four of his friends: two pairs of brothers called John and Al Jennings and Pat and Morris O'Malley. John is a serious guy who says little, his younger brother Al is chatty while the O'Malley brothers strike you as a pair of idiots.
  
  "I'm tired of us hiding out and hunted for having stolen nothing more than a few dollars," Little Dick announces. "Me and my new friends here are going to form a new gang, the Jennings Gang, and go back to robbing trains. If we are going to go down like our companions we might as well go down fighting... and get rich in the meantime."
  
  Dynamite Dick shakes his head wearily. "I figure I'm going to keep lying low," he announces. "I don't want to die young."
  
  It seems you have two choices: to resume an active outlaw career or continue your life in hiding.
  
  > join the Jennings Gang
  You team up with Little Dick, Al and John Jennings and Pat and Morris O'Malley and begin robbing trains but it is a disaster. Your first attempt to stop a train at Edmond fails when the train ploughs straight through the barrier of logs you have put on the track to stop it, you are forced to flee without a dollar when the alarm is raised.
  
  Opting to board the train for your next robbery at Berwyn you and Little Dick enter the Express Carriage after the others have seized control of the train but none of the Express Managers have the key for the safe and your dynamite fails to blow it open. Determined not to repeat this mistake at your third train robbery at Pocasset you use so much dynamite that you destroy not only the safe but the entire Express Carriage.
  
  These failures are humiliating and when news arrives that Dynamite Dick has been tracked down and killed at Checotah Little Dick decides that enough is enough. He announces he will split off from the others and go into hiding at Guthrie while the rest of the gang elects to hide out at Cushing and try to plan a successful train robbery.
  
  > go with Little Dick to Guthrie
  You elect to stick with Little Dick and accompany him to Guthrie where you find a cabin to live in. You are not surprised to read that Al, John, Pat and Morris were all captured by lawmen, once more you and Little Dick are on your own. You remain hidden over the winter but as the spring dawns you go outside one morning to find two lawmen waiting for you.
  
  "It's the end of the line boys," one announces. "Surrender and no one will get hurt."
  
  You and Little Dick glance at each other.
  
  > Surrender
  You raise your hands while Little Dick goes for his guns. The two lawmen have no intention of taking either of you in alive and open fire with their pistols. Both of you are shot in the chest and fall dying to the ground. As you stare up at the blue sky, which slowly darkens, you give a deep sigh and smile. It is all over. The last of the Wild Bunch is gone.
  
  Your Outlaw Career is over.
  
  > click here to see how well you did compared to your companions
  This is the Performance Table where you can compare your Gunfights, Injured, Killed, Robberies, Score and Fate with those of your fellow members of The Wild Bunch to see who is the greatest Outlaw!
  
  1: Bill Doolin: Gunfights: 6, Injured: 1, Killed: 2, Robberies: 7, Score: 6500 - Killed.
  
  2: Bill Dalton: Gunfights: 6, Injured: 0, Killed: 1, Robberies: 6, Score: 4400 - Killed.
  
  3: Bitter Creek: Gunfights: 6, Injured: 1, Killed: 0, Robberies: 7, Score: 3500 - Killed.
  
  4: Charley Piece: Gunfights: 7, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 7, Score: 3400 - Killed.
  
  5: Bob Dalton: Gunfights: 3, Injured: 2, Killed: 4, Robberies: 6, Score: 3000 - Killed.*
  
  6: Emmett Dalton: Gunfights: 3, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 6, Score: 3000 - Imprisoned.
  
  7: Dick Broadwell: Gunfights: 2, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 2500 - Killed.
  
  8: Bill Power: Gunfights: 2, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 2500 - Killed.
  
  9: Grat Dalton: Gunfights: 3, Injured: 0, Killed: 1, Robberies: 4, Score: 2100 - Killed.*
  
  10: George Bennett: Gunfights: 1, Injured: 3, Killed: 1, Robberies: 1, Score: 1000 - Killed.
  
  11: Asa Knight: Gunfights: 2, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 1, Score: 1000 - Killed.
  
  12: Jim Knight: Gunfights: 2, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 1, Score: 1000 - Imprisoned.
  
  13: Jim Wallace: Gunfights: 2, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 1, Score: 1000 - Killed.
  
  14: Dynamite Dick: Gunfights: 5, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 700 - Killed.
  
  15: Red Buck: Gunfights: 5, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 700 - Killed.
  
  16: Tulsa Jack: Gunfights: 4, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 700 - Killed.
  
  17: Little Dick: Gunfights: 3, Injured: 3, Killed: 1, Robberies: 5, Score: 600 - Killed.
  
  18: Little Bill: Gunfights: 3, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 2, Score: 600 - Imprisoned.
  
  19: Black Face: Gunfights: 1, Injured: 0, Killed: 1, Robberies: 2, Score: 500 - Killed.
  
  20: Ol Yantis: Gunfights: 1, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 1, Score: 300 - Killed.
  
  21: Arkansas Tom: Gunfights: 3, Injured: 0, Killed: 1, Robberies: 1, Score: 100 - Killed.
  
  22: John Jennings: Gunfights: 2, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 0 - Imprisoned.
  
  23: Al Jennings: Gunfights: 1, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 0 - Imprisoned.
  
  24: Pat O'Malley: Gunfights: 1, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 0 - Imprisoned.
  
  25: Morris O'Malley: Gunfights: 1, Injured: 0, Killed: 0, Robberies: 3, Score: 0 - Imprisoned.
  
  * Bob Dalton also killed two men in two gunfights and Grat Dalton was in two gunfights, during one of which he was shot in the arm, but as these gunfights occurred when they were serving as lawmen in 1889 and 1890 they are not counted here.
  
  Most Prolific Gunfighter: 1: Charley Pierce (7 Gunfights), 2: Bill Doolin / Bill Dalton / Bitter Creek (6 Gunfights).
  
  Most Lethal Hurter: 1: George Bennett (3 Injured), 2: Bob Dalton (2 Injured), 3: Bitter Creek (1 Injured)
  
  Most Deadly Killer: 1: Bob Dalton (4 Killed), 2: Bill Doolin (2 Killed), 3: Bill Dalton / Grat Dalton / George Bennett / Black Face / Arkansas Tom (1 Killed).
  
  Most Enthusiastic Robber: 1: Bill Doolin / Bitter Creek / Charley Pierce (7 Robberies).
  
  Most Successful Bandit: 1: Bill Doolin ($6,500), 2: Bill Dalton ($4,400), 3: Bitter Creek ($3,500).
  
  Overall Best Outlaw: 1: Bill Doolin, 2: Bill Dalton 3: Bitter Creek, 4: Charley Pierce, 5: Bob Dalton.
  
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