According to one of the many legends of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Etta Place in South America, two men and one…
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A Legend is Born How a Pennsylvania Kid went West, became the Sundance Kid and joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch
The Sundance Kid, whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, is inextricably linked to the better-known Butch Cassidy,…
The End of The Line Two “Americanos” vs. A Uyuni Posse
November 6, 1908 A four-man posse from Uyuni, Bolivia, rides into the small village of San Vicente, warning a village o…
The Robbery at Castle Gate Butch Cassidy is best-remembered as the smartest, most resourceful and likable of the outlaw chieftains.
While many gang leaders boasted they were mean enough to eat off the same plate with a rattlesnake, Butch Cassidy is bes…
Butch & Sundance & Pike & Dutch How two films from the summer of ’69 changed Westerns forever.
Every period picture, consciously or not, reflects two periods, the time in which the story is set, and the time the fil…
Rustling Up Some Cash Wild Bunch member Matt Warner did well at cattle theft.
Matt Warner—a friend of Butch Cassidy’s and occasional Wild Bunch rider—was looking for some action in the 1890s. So he …
Hiding in the Privvy Tom O’Day’s hiding place didn’t work so well.
It’s unclear what role Tom O’Day played with the Wild Bunch. Some say he was a scout, checking possible robbery sites. O…
The Mysterious “Laughing Sam” Carey’s story is cloaked in questions.
Not much is known about Wild Bunch rider “Laughing Sam Carey”—including how he got the nickname. Some accounts say he hu…
Butch Cassidy Would Do a Double Take The Little Snake River Museum in Savery, Wyoming, preserves Old West history with a flair.
Sometimes you have to travel a “road to nowhere” to get somewhere you should be. Like the road to the Little Snake River…
The Wrong Men The posse thought they’d caught the Wild Bunch....but…
The posse rode out of Price, UT in May 1898. They had reports that Butch Cassidy and members of the Wild Bunch were cam…