Butch cassidy and the sundance kid biography

(1866-1908)

Who Was Butch Cassidy?

In 1900, Butch Cassidy partnered with Harry Longabaugh, nicknamed the “Sundance Kid,” to rob banks and trains as leaders of the Wild Bunch, a group of outlaws. They eluded police by escaping to South America.

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In 1906, they returned to crime. It is believed they were trapped and killed by police in Bolivia in 1908, but reports vary.

Early Years

Considered one of the great hustlers of the American West, Butch Cassidy was born Robert LeRoy Parker on April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah. The oldest of 13 children in a poor Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints family, Parker was a teenager when he left home in the hopes of carving out a better, more prosperous life than what his parents had been able to provide.

He found work on several different ranches and eventually befriended a rancher named Mike Cassidy, who had a reputation for stealing cattle and horses.

Young Parker admired the elder Cassidy and, wanting to emulate his Butch Cassidy och Sundance Kid – Wikipedia MEDO