1898, all of the remaining former Wild Bunch gang were dead, having been killed in various shootouts with lawmen. Heck Thomas had tracked most of them; the remainder were tracked down and eliminated by lawmen Madsen and Tilghman, or other posses. In popular media Burt Lancaster portrayed Doolin in the film Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981). Lancaster was 65 during the shooting of the film, but was playing Doolin in his 30s. In the film Return of the Bad Men (1948), Robert Armstrong plays Doolin as the leader of a gang more powerful than the Wild Bunch. This fictional account added the Sundance Kid, Billy the Kid, and two of the Younger brothers to the known members of Doolin's gang. Randolph Scott, as Marshal Vance Cordrell, is a fictional composite of the many lawmen who pursued Doolin. Randolph Scott portrayed Bill Doolin in the film The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949) War hero Audie Murphy played a fictionalized Bill Doolin in the film The Cimarron Kid (1952). Leo Gordon portrayed Doolin in a 1954 episode of Jim Davis's syndicated television series, Stories of the Century. The dramatization concludes with Doolin being shot to death after an earlier escape. Heck Thomas in Stories of the Century is referred to as Deputy Marshal Gleason, played by Kenneth MacDonald. In the TV movie You Know My Name, Marshal Bill Tilghman, played by Sam Elliott, tells his sons how he arrested Doolin, who is played by James Baker. The Eagles album Desperado contains two tracks titled "Doolin-Dalton" and one named "Bitter Creek". The album is loosely themed around the Dalton Gang. References External links Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Doolin, Bill The Doolins of Oklahoma The Doolin Gang 1858 births 1896 deaths Cowboys American bank robbers Criminals from Arkansas Criminals from Oklahoma Dalton Gang Deaths by firearm in Oklahoma Fugitives Gunslingers of the American Old West Outlaws of the American Old West People from Johnson County, Arkansas People shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States