Editing Adair, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
Adair is named after two Cherokee brothers, [[William Penn Adair]], a politician and jurist, and Dr. Walter Thompson Adair.<ref name="okhiz"/> It was established on March 15, 1883, and incorporated in 1897.<ref name="okhiz"/> William Penn Adair lived in the area off and on for 17 years beginning in the late 1860s.<ref name="chronicles">Moore, Cherrie Adair, "[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v029/v029p032.pdf William Penn Adair]" ''Chronicles of Oklahoma'', vol. 29, p.35 (accessed June 1, 2010).</ref>

In the 1880s, a Cherokee school was started here. In 1907, shortly before statehood, the school began to admit white students.<ref name="okhiz">[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AD002.html Thomas, Betty Lou Harper. "Adair"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720183121/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AD002.html |date=July 20, 2010 }}, ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'' (accessed May 6, 2010)</ref>

===Dalton Gang train robbery===
In the most daring deed of the [[Dalton Gang]] up to that date, eight members held up the [[Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad|Missouri-Kansas-Texas train]] at Adair on July 14, 1892.

As the train neared, four men approached the night operator at the station and ordered him to "flag down" the train. As the train pulled to a stand-still, two members of the gang boarded the engine while the others covered the conductor and train men. The station operator was taken to the express car, where he ordered the messenger inside to open up. When the messenger refused, the train's fireman was ordered to break open the door with his pick. Once inside, the bandits were quick to rifle the safe of its contents.

The gang did not know that a special detachment of eight railroad guards was on the train, in an effort to prevent such robberies. In command was J. J. Kinney, chief of railroad detectives, and Capt. J. H. LaFlore, chief of the [[Indian agency police|Cherokee Nation police]]. Realizing the robbery was underway, the guards got off the train opposite the depot, and had a brief gun battle with some of the bandits on that side.

Finished on the train, the bandits made their get-away through the town. Doctors W. L. Goff and Youngblood were sitting on the porch of the drug store near the depot. Both men were hit several times by stray shots; Dr Goff was fatally wounded. Also wounded were captains Kinney and LaFlore, but they recovered.

The railroad and express company offered rewards of $5,000 "for the capture and conviction" for each bandit in the robbery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lasr.net/travel/city.php?Historic+Dalton+Gang+Robbery&TravelTo=OK0306001&VA=Y&Attraction_ID=OK0306001a002 |title=The Dalton Gang Train Robbery at Adair, I.T. |publisher=LASR |date= |accessdate=March 1, 2018}}</ref><!-- And? Anyone ever caught? -->