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Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, [1] 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 . Parker engaged in criminal activity for more than a decade at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, but the ...
- Horse theft, cattle rustling, bank and train robbery
- Gunshot wounds
- Butch Cassidy, Mike Cassidy, George Cassidy, Jim Lowe, Santiago Maxwell
Apr 9, 2024 · Butch Cassidy, 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. He was also noted for his partnership with Harry Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid. Learn more about Cassidy’s life and crimes in this article.
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Sep 8, 2020 · In the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the two outlaws, played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford respectively, appear to go out in a blaze of glory during a gun battle in Bolivia in ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Who Was Butch Cassidy? In 1900, Butch Cassidy partnered with Harry Longabaugh, nicknamed the “Sundance Kid,” to rob banks and trains as leaders of the Wild Bunch, a group of outlaws. They ...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman.Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train ...
- $102.3 million (North America)
- Burt Bacharach
- $6 million
- John Foreman
Apr 13, 2016 · Cassidy’s sister, Lula Parker Betenson, wrote in her 1975 book “Butch Cassidy, My Brother” that the outlaw had returned to the family ranch in Circleville, Utah, in 1925 to visit his ailing ...
Oct 28, 2020 · What were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's biggest heists? From his early days as a cattle rustler to his later career as a bank and train robber, Butch Cassidy was a desperado with a difference.
