At Tiffany & Co., Sundance bought a fancy lapel watch for Place, as well as a gold watch for himself. The Sundance Kid Some of the better-known outlaws from the gang, according to Spartacus Educational Ltd., included Cassidy and Sundance, but also Will Carver, Ben the "Tall Texan" Kilpatrick, Elzy Lay, Bob Lee, Lonnie Logan, Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan (pictured with girlfriend Annie Rogers), Flat-Nose Curry, Matt Warner and many others. Harry Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, came from Pennsylvania. | Law believed Lula Betenson's story that the duo's friend, Percy Seibert, purposely started the story that Cassidy and Sundance had been killed so that the outlaws could "go straight" without further interference from the law. Nobody knows for sure exactly what became of them or where they died (although that didn't stop Hollywood from making a classic film about it.)

Actress Katharine Ross, who played the beautiful and refined Etta Place, later remembered, "I don't really know how I got the part. In her book, The Wild Bunch at Robber's Roost, author Pearl Baker wrote that Etta Place was the only second woman to appear at Robber's Roost in 1896. Author C.F. Among those newspapers to report the incident was the Telluride Daily Journal in Colorado, where a young Cassidy Cassidy had robbed his first bank back in 1889. On their visit to San Vicente, Anne Meadows and Daniel Buck were told by a local, Senor Risso, that about twenty soldiers were on the scene of the shootout.

In about 1882, the 15-year-old headed west with his cousin in a covered wagon, according to writer Neil Patrick.

Soon, wanted posters were appearing throughout South America looking for the "bandidos yanqui," wrote Donna Ernst. The debates about whether Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really died in 1908 likely would be less famous were it not for the classic film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. When he learned he was wanted for the Wilcox train robbery, he "shut up like a clam.". They sought refuge in Forth Worth, Texas and while there, Butch, and Sundance, along with some other gang members posed in fancy suits and derby hats and had their picture taken. Some were married, some were single. History reports that on November 4, 1908 Carlos Pero, courier for a Bolivian mine, was accosted by two Anglo men wearing bandannas over their faces. The young outlaw took his new moniker from the town where he served his time. Two years after he was released, Lee's death certificate verifies he passed away from Bright's Disease at just 45.

Lula said Cassidy died in 1937, a date which jives of with the death of William T. Phillips who claimed he actually was Butch Cassidy. Neighbors recalled liking the threesome, noting they were "law-abiding citizens." The mysterious lives of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, © 2020 Grunge.com. Lowe Maxwell Just a few days later, Sundance and Place (and perhaps Cassidy) were believed to have boarded the SS Herminius for Buenos Aires, per Donna Ernst. Neither outlaw claimed the other as his partner, but the two were somehow thrown together. Eventually, Logan introduced Sundance to Butch Cassidy, and he officially joined up with the Wild Bunch. Trusting, upstanding citizens who knew him were known to participate in horse races at Wild Bunch hideouts. When Constable Henry Boedeker was asked why Cassidy wasn't shackled with the other prisoners, he responded that the outlaw was the only one who could be trusted.

Even law officers liked Cassidy.

He took part in an aborted train robbery in 1887 but robbed banks in Denver and Telluride.At first, he used the alias of George Cassidy but after working at a butcher shop in Rock Springs, Wyoming, he became known as Butch Cassidy which stayed with him for the rest of his life.Butch switched from honest labor (mine employee, butcher, cowboy) to outlaw activities, and became part of an outlaw stronghold of brown’s Hole, a rugged mountain camp at the Green River, bordering Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Eighteen months into his sentence, he met with Governor W.A. In 1892, however, the Sundance Kid was named a suspect following an 1892 train robbery at Malta, Montana. Cassidy now went by James Ryan, while Sundance and Etta masqueraded as Mr. and Mrs. Harry Place.

Harry Long, Copyright © 1999-2020 thewildwest.org. George Cassidy Because of his family ties and his reputation as a robber rather than a killer, Butch Cassidy especially was able to retain relationships with "respectable" folks. Other versions maintain that both men returned to the United States and lived out their lives separately: Butch was said to have visited his family in Utah in 1925; another version claims he served as a mercenary in the Mexican revolution and later lived in Spokane, Washington under the name of William T. Phillips where he operated a business and died in 1937. Sundance, according to one version, married Etta and lived for years in Mexico and New Mexico and then died in 1957 at the age of 96.

But then law enforcement decided to put a stop to their outlaw ways and break up the Wild Bunch—permanently. Lawmen entered the house and found the bandits, who appeared to have committed a murder-suicide. For years, numerous people claimed to have seen Cassidy, or Sundance, or both (and sometimes Place) after 1908. You are under arrest." James “Santiago” Maxwell Writer Jack Adler is just one of many authors to repeat the tale that the outlaws were instructed to shoot at the horses, not the riders, if the gang was pursued by a posse. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival ... Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979 ... Eaves Movie Ranch - 105 Rancho Alegre Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Is this interesting? George Parker (Butch’s real name, according to the Pinkertons’ wanted posters) During their time in New York, Cassidy, Sundance and Place used various aliases as they spent three weeks seeing the sights. In the movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a rather comical scene depicts Wild Bunch members accidentally blowing a train car to smithereens. Dodge saw the image, recognized Will Carver, and sent a copy to Pinkerton's Detective Agency.

Historians Anne Meadows and Daniel Buck both visited the cabin during the 1990s and were told by others that Place set her table "with a certain etiquette" that included "napkins [and] china plates," also that the cabin was simply but elegantly appointed with burgundy-and-gold brocade wallpaper.

Technical Specs, Tent Rocks, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, USA, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Chama, New Mexico, USA, Eaves Movie Ranch - 105 Rancho Alegre Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, Rancho de las Golondrinas - 334 Los Pinos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, THE MOST UNNECESSARY, UNASKED FOR, UNWANTED SEQUELS OF ALL TIME. Maybe the producers wanted me at that moment.". Under Butch Cassidy's tutelage, the gang was rarely violent. The scene immortalizes the infamous robbery of a Union Pacific train near Wilcox, Wyoming on June 2, 1899. The last time was in 1905, when Sundance indicated in a letter to his friend, Dan Gibbon, that he was taking his "wife" to San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. The real Etta Place, according to Pinkerton's (per author James D. Horan) claimed Cassidy and Sundance met Place at Fannie Porter's brothel in San Antonio, Texas. Officers notified the Cripple Creek sheriff to find and arrest Bob Lee, a cousin to Harvey and Lonny Logan. George Parker (Butch’s real name, according to the Pinkertons’ wanted posters), Harry A.