Ms. Sakljflk; Sdfjkl; Asjkl; Ds

Butch Cassidy

Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, was born on April 13th 1866, and would become one of the most notorious thieves and gang leaders of the Wild West. He got thenickname Butch while working briefly as a butcher and adopted the surname Cassidy after being mentored by Mike Cassidy, a horse thief and cattle rustler.
Cassidy was raised on a ranch in Utah beforeleaving in his early teens to work on a dairy farm. In 1880, at the age of 14, he committed his first crime; he broke into a shop and took a pair of jeans and a pie, leaving an IOU promising to pay theshopkeeper the next time he was there. The shopkeeper pressed charges anyway, but Cassidy was acquitted; this was his first, albeit minor, run-in with the law.
In 1884 he moved to Telluride,Colorado, supposedly to look for work but possibly to sell stolen horses. He left Telluride to become a cowboy in Wyoming and Montana but returned in 1887 and met Matt Warner. Warner owned a horse, and heand Cassidy raced the horse and split the winnings.
In 1889 Cassidy, Warner, and two others robbed a bank in Telluride of $21,000 then went to a hideout in Utah. The next year, Cassidy bought a ranchin Wyoming near the famous Hole-in-the-Wall hideout that many outlaws used, leading some people to think that his stint as a rancher was just a cover up for criminal activities. In 1894 he wasimprisoned for horse thief and served 18 months of a two-year sentence, having promised the governor that he wouldn’t commit any more crimes in Wyoming if he could be let out early.


After his releasein 1896, Cassidy became associated with a group of criminals and formed the Wild Bunch gang, of which he was leader. This gang included his close friend Elzy Lay, the Sundance Kid, News Carver, TallTexan and various others. His criminal activity greatly increased upon entering, and they eventually became the most successful train-robbing gang in history. They claimed to make an effort to...