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The Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin–Dalton Gang (Bill Doolin, pictured left), was a group of outlaws based in Indian Territory, that terrorized Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s—robbing banks, stores and trains, and killing lawmen.
Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West.
Sep 8, 2020 · Members of the Wild Bunch, the robbers' life and death inspired the 1969 movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. By Hadley Meares Updated: Sep 8, 2020. Photo: John Swartz/American...
On August 18, 1896, according to local Western lore (the truth of which cannot be determined), over 200 outlaws from regional gangs gathered at Brown’s Hole, where Butch Cassidy proposed to organize a Train Robbers’ Syndicate, which became familiarly known as the Wild Bunch.
The Wild Bunch. Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, December 1900. Butch Cassidy’s bandit gang, called the Wild Bunch, operated in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada for nearly five years, successfully robbing banks, trains, and stages throughout the area.
Apr 9, 2024 · Butch Cassidy (born April 13, 1866, Beaver, Utah, U.S.—died 1909?, Concordia Tin Mines, near San Vicente, Bolivia?) was an American outlaw and foremost member of the Wild Bunch, a collection of bank and train robbers who ranged through the western United States in the 1880s and ’90s. What's in a name? Famous nicknames in history.
Apr 5, 2024 · A notorious gang of outlaws headed by Pike Bishop (played by William Holden) barely escape a violent bank robbery in which dozens of innocent bystanders are killed. Pike and his right-hand man, Dutch Engstrom ( Ernest Borgnine ), come to the realization that there is no longer a place for them in the rapidly changing American West.
