Desperadoes

Blurb

Desperados is a 1979 novel by Ron Hansen that chronicles the rise and fall of the Dalton Gang.
The novel is told in the form of a fictional memoir written in 1937 by 65 year old Emmett Dalton, the last surviving member of the gang. The novel's main characters are Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton, Gratton "Grat" Dalton, William M."Bill" Dalton, and Eugenia Moore AKA Florence Quick, Bob's inamorata and the gang's strategist. The primary action of the novel takes place between the murder of Frank Dalton in November, 1887, up to, and including, the gang's destruction in Coffeyville, Kansas on October 5, 1892.