Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West.
30 Facts About Butch Cassidy
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Butch Cassidy fled with his accomplice Harry Longabaugh, known as the "Sundance Kid", and Longabaugh's girlfriend Etta Place.
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Butch Cassidy subsequently worked on several ranches, in addition to a brief apprenticeship with a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where he got his nickname, to which he soon added the last name Cassidy in honor of his old friend and mentor.
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Butch Cassidy broke into the shop and stole a pair of jeans and some pie, leaving an IOU promising to pay on his next visit.
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The clothier pressed charges, but Butch Cassidy was acquitted by a jury.
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Butch Cassidy continued to work on ranches until 1884, when he moved to Telluride, Colorado, ostensibly to seek work, but perhaps to deliver stolen horses to buyers.
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Butch Cassidy led a cowboy's life in Wyoming and Montana before returning to Telluride in 1887, where he met Matt Warner, the owner of a racehorse.
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In 1890, Butch Cassidy purchased a ranch on the outskirts of Dubois, Wyoming.
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Butch Cassidy's ranching was possibly a facade for clandestine activities, perhaps with Hole-in-the-Wall outlaws, as he was never financially successful at ranching.
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Butch Cassidy's ranch used the "unmistakable brand" of "Reverse-E, Box, E".
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In early 1894, Butch Cassidy became involved romantically with rancher and outlaw Ann Bassett.
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Butch Cassidy's father was a rancher who did business with Cassidy, supplying him with fresh horses and beef.
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That same year, Butch Cassidy was arrested at Lander, Wyoming, for stealing horses and possibly for running a protection racket among the local ranchers there.
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Butch Cassidy was imprisoned in the Wyoming State Prison in Laramie, where he served 18 months of a 2-year sentence; he was released and pardoned in January 1896 by Governor William Alford Richards.
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Butch Cassidy became involved briefly with Bassett's older sister Josie before returning to Ann.
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Butch Cassidy recruited Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the "Sundance Kid", into the gang soon after.
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Butch Cassidy became friends with Elfie Landusky, who was using the last name Curry after becoming pregnant by Kid Curry's brother Lonny Logan, and Siringo intended to locate the gang through her.
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On July 11,1899, Lay and others were involved in a Colorado and Southern Railroad train robbery near Folsom, New Mexico, which Butch Cassidy might have planned and personally directed.
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Butch Cassidy approached Utah Governor Heber Wells to negotiate an amnesty.
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Butch Cassidy returned to Montana, pursued by Pinkertons and other law enforcement officers, where he shot and killed rancher James Winters in retaliation for killing his brother Johnny years before.
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Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia references a letter Butch Cassidy wrote from Cholila to Elza Lay's mother-in-law in Utah, dated August 10,1902.
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Butch Cassidy obtained honest work under the alias James "Santiago" Maxwell at the Concordia Tin Mine in the Santa Vera Cruz range of the central Bolivian Andes, where Longabaugh joined him upon his return.
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Butch Cassidy notified a nearby telegraph officer, who notified the Abaroa cavalry regiment stationed nearby.
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The man assumed to be Longabaugh had a bullet wound in the forehead, and the man thought to be Butch Cassidy had a bullet hole in the temple.
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The local police report speculated that judging from the positions of the bodies, Butch Cassidy had probably shot the fatally wounded Longabaugh to put him out of his misery, then killed himself with his final bullet.
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Smith stated that he had seen Butch Cassidy, who told him that his face had been altered by a surgeon in Paris, and he showed Smith an old bullet wound that Smith recognized as work that he had done.
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Butch Cassidy has no doubts: her brother came back and ate blueberry pie with family at Circleville in.
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Butch Cassidy believes he died of pneumonia in Washington in the late 1930s.
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Residents claimed that Cassidy had visited for several days in 1924, driving a Ford Model T Betenson stated that he returned to the family home in Circleville during this period, and picked up his brother Mark in a Ford, then drove to their father's home, where she lived.
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Grace explains that Butch Cassidy was secretly buried at Tom's Cabin, a former sheepherders' log cabin located in a remote area of the property, a favorite camping spot for his brothers and him.