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Wild Bunch, a gang in the American Wild West, led by Butch Cassidy, included Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, William Carver, Laura Bullion, Elza Lay, George Curry, Harvey Logan, and Bob Meeks. The Wild Bunch tried to abstain from killing people and Cassidy boasted of having never killed a man. Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ...
Butch Cassidy (April 13, 1866 - 1908?), American outlaw, was born Robert Leroy Parker in Beaver, Utah, the oldest of thirteen children born to Mormon pioneers from England. ...
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Well-known people named George Curry include: George Curry (Governor of New Mexico Territory) George Curry (Wild Bunch) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
At 1:00 a.m on June 2, 1899, Cassidy, Curry, Logan and Lay took part in the highly successful Union Pacific train holdup at Wilcox, Wyoming, stealing $30,000. Afterwards, the gang fled to New Mexico. The men were wearing masks made from white napkins possibly stolen from a Harvey House Restaurant. The Union Pacific Railroad (NYSE: UNP) is the largest railroad in the United States. ...
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On August 29th, 1900, Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Logan and two unidentified gang members, held up another Union Pacific train at Tipton, Wyoming. Less than a month later, on September 19, 1900, they raided the First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nevada, stealing $32,640. Winnemucca cemetery with a sign reading: Welcome to Winnemucca, Proud of it! Winnemucca is the county seat of Humboldt County, Nevada and the site of a September 19, 1900 bank robbery by the Wild Bunch. ...
In 1901, Cassidy along with the Sundance Kid and Etta Place relocate to South America. In 1908 Butch and Sundance may have been killed in a shootout with Bolivian cavalry. But there is evidence they both returned to the United States, with the Sundance Kid dying in 1936.
External links
"Sundance Kid" Henry Long (http://www.sundancekidhenrylong.com)
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