Dalton Defender Days

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This year's festival will feature the famous Dalton Raid reenactments, Heart of the Heartland Train rides, chili cook-off and salsa competition, food vendors, kid's games and activities, shotgun weddings, arts and crafts, the OK Car Club car show, team roping and Cowboy Trade Days at the fairgrounds.

Dalton Defenders Days celebrates that fateful day of October 5, 1892 when the Dalton Gang was defeated in Coffeyville Kansas. The Dalton Gang attempted to rob two banks in Coffeyville and all but one of them was shot and killed. We celebrate the four towns people who gave their lives defending Coffeyville.

Phone : 620-251-2550 (Always call and confirm events.)

Web:

www.coffeyville.com

Tom Mix Museum

The Tom Mix Museum houses a large collection of this silent movie King of the Cowboys personal and movie items. Return to the days when the good guys wore white hats and sample something of the magnitude of Tom Mix, the Myth and the Man. Museum exhibits include a replica of Tony "

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Tom Mix

Thomas Edward Mix was everything his surname suggest - a mix of myth and man, fantasy and reality. His own life rivaled his screen escapades, and he was enormously successful.

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Prairie Song, Indian Territory

Replica of an 1800s prairie village has more than 20 buildings.

Dewey, OK Museums

Dewey Hotel Museum

1899 hotel with period furnishings.

Dewey, OK Museums

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Dalton Defender Days

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