1. Robert LeRoy Parker—the future Butch Cassidy—spent much of his childhood in this cabin three miles south of Circleville, Utah.
1. Robert LeRoy Parker—the future Butch Cassidy—spent much of his childhood in this cabin three miles south of Circleville, Utah.
2. Because he was an avowed enemy of Big Cattle and not just another rustler, Butch Cassidy was sentenced to two years in the Wyoming State Penitentiary for stealing a $5 horse.
3. Telluride, Colorado, had a reputation for raucousness. “It has ten saloons and plans for a church,” said a local newspaper. In 1889 Butch and his boys robbed Telluride’s San Miguel Valley Bank and, using a clever relay system that involved planting fresh mounts along the escape route, made a clean getaway.
4. While attending the wedding of Will Carver (standing, left) in the red-light district of Fort Worth in 1900, the core members of the Wild Bunch took a break to have their picture taken. It would be used in more than a few wanted posters. (From left to right) Harry “the Sundance Kid” Longabaugh, Carver, Ben Kilpatrick, Harvey Logan, and Butch Cassidy.
5. Harvey Logan, aka Kid Curry, may have had a soft spot for his longtime girlfriend, the Texas prostitute Annie Rogers, but he was, in his early days, a cold-blooded killer in a gang that didn’t like to draw blood.
6. Laura Bullion—the girlfriend of Will Carver and then Ben Kilpatrick—was one of several women who traveled with the Wild Bunch and may have even held the horses at a few of their robberies.
7. Elzy Lay may have dabbled in robbing banks and trains, as well as counterfeiting, but he was, like Butch, a lover of books who carried both novels and nonfiction in his saddlebag.
8. At the Tipton, Wyoming, train robbery of August 29, 1900, Butch and his gang blew open the express car safe and probably destroyed some of its contents in the process. Still, their haul was estimated at $50,000.
9. The residents of Sanderson, Texas, were doing the normal thing in 1912 when they proudly displayed the still-warm bodies of two outlaws: Ben “the Tall Texan” Kilpatrick and Ole Beck.
10. Harry Longabaugh, a.k.a. “The Sundance Kid,” told his family that he had married a woman from Texas, and she signed her name as Ethel Place. He and his mysterious bride had this portrait taken during a visit to New York City in 1901, a stopover on their way to Argentina.
11. In the days before the FBI, when the United States had no national police force, the Pinkerton Detective Agency filled the gap.
12. Although this chapter of their lives was left out of the movie, Butch (far left), Sundance (second from right), and Ethel (right) spent a few years in the foothills of the Argentine Andes as they tried to make a go of it as legitimate ranchers.
