The Wild Bunch Around the time of 1866-1868, legends were born. These gentlemen were born in completely different states, but would become the best partners in crime around the early 1900s. When they came together, they were outlaws that had the same passion, robbing anything from banks to trains and causing mischief. They had no idea that they would form one of the most unstoppable outlaw groups and were about to form a brotherhood that would last for a lifetime. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, were about to become two of the most notorious outlaws in history. BUTCH CASSIDY Robert Leroy Parker was born on April 13, 1886 in Beaver, Utah. Cassidy was the oldest of thirteen children. Raised in a poor mormon family, Cassidy had no idea what …show more content…
laid ahead for him. He left home as a teenager in hope for a better, much more successful future then what his parents could provide. Cassidy found work on several different ranches, working for little pay, just to get by. ( Biograohy.com Editors). He often times slept in horse stalls and hay lofts in the ranch barn because he had nowhere to go or stay. On the last ranch Parker worked, he became friends with a fellow ranch hand named Mike Cassidy who had a reputation of stealing horses and cattle. Young Parker looked up to the older Cassidy, and wanted to fit into his group of friends. He didn't want to disrespect his family’s name so he changed his name to Butch Cassidy after leaving the ranch. ( Biograohy.com Editors). The new Cassidy was said to be a charming thief that was well liked by almost everybody. His first robbery came in June 1889. Cassidy, and three other cowboys made off with well over $20,000 from the San Miguel Valley Bank Telluride, Colorado. ( Biograohy.com Editors). One year after the robbery, Cassidy purchased a ranch with a couple thousand acres in Dubois, Wyoming in 1890. He continued to russle cattle and other livestock. The law finally caught up to Cassidy and was put in jail for 2 years. Butch Cassidy was said to be a man of his word. The day that Cassidy was supposed to be put in jail he pleaded the law that they give him one more day before he is taken to jail. He promised to come back the next morning without hesitation. Authorities took him on his word and let him go for one day. It is unknown what Cassidy did that day, but the next morning he showed up to the jail just like he promised to do.( Biograohy.com Editors). Butch Cassidy was released in 1896 and continued his life of theft. A few years later, Cassidy embarked on what is said to be one of the longest stretches of successful robbery careers in American History. Butch Cassidy said, “You know, when i was a kid, I always thought I'd grow up to be a hero” The Sundance Kid Harry Alonzo Longabaugh was born in 1867, in MontClare, Pennsylvania.1867, the son of Josiah and Annie G. Longabaugh. He was the youngest of five children (his older siblings were Ellwood, Samanna, Emma and Harvey). He left his family at the age of 15 and headed west. ( Biograohy.com Editors). Longabough was a drifter that kept moving through different towns and never settled down. In 1887, Longabaugh stole a gun, horse and saddle from a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming. The authorities of Sundance, Wyoming caught Harry as he tried to run off with the goods and was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail. During his jail time, he got a new nickname that would follow him for the rest of his life, The Sundance Kid. After he was released he went to work as a ranch hand. In 1891, he worked on a ranch called the Bar U Ranch, at the age of 25 years old in what is common day Alberta, Canada. ( Worldcat Identities). Longabaugh soon got tired of working for little pay and returned to his life of crime. It is said that The Sundance Kid was one of the fastest gun slingers in history. The Sundance Kid once said, “Boy, I got a vision and the rest of the world wear bifocals.” The Gang It is unknown how Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid came together but history was made the day they did.
The group consisted of; Robert Leroy Parker ( Butch Cassidy), Harry Alonzo Lonabaugh ( The Sundance Kid), William Ellsworth Lay ( Elzy Lay), Ben Kilpatrick ( The Tall Texan), Harvey Logan ( Kid Curry), these outlaws went by the name of The Wild Bunch. ( Biograohy.com Editors). The group hit banks and trains in South Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wyoming. The first heist that the gang hit was a bank in Montpelier, Idaho on August 1896, and they ran off with over $7,000. Between heists The Wild Bunch often times hid at The-Hole-In-The-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming. The gang was for a time best known for their relatively low use of violence, during their robberies, they relied on intimidation, and negotiation. The word of the gang spread around the states fairly quickly, and the public was eager to read about their heists. With all the attention the group was receiving, it got to their heads and made the heists even bigger. One of the biggest robberies was a $70,000 haul from a train just outside of Folsom, New Mexico. With all of the train robberies that the gang was pulling off the Union Pacific Railroad company was getting very worried and upset. Unable to stop the Bunch, the Union Pacific Railroad went so far as to propose to Cassidy a pardon in exchange for the promise of ending his robberies and coming to work for the company as an express guard. ( Biograohy.com Editors). Cassidy turned the offer down. With no other choice the railroad company turned to law enforcement to put a permanent end to the Wild Bunch. To hunt the bunch down they hired the famouse Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which pushed Cassidy and the Sundance Kid into South America. With the men in South America, they continued their life of crime robbing trains and
banks. The End It’s said that Cassidy and his men lost their lives in a shootout with soldiers in southern Bolivia on November, 6 1908. The truth about the gangs end has never been fully settled. Some historical evidence says that Cassidy faked his death, returning to the United States with the new name of William T. Phillips. In his home country, Cassidy lived three more years making a living as a machinist, before passing away from cancer in Spokane, Washington in 1937.( Biograohy.com Editors). The Sundance Kid was said to live a new life as William Long, making a living as a cattle and horse rancher in Utah. His death is not know for certain. On November 3, 1908, near San Vicente in southern Boliva, a courier for a nearby mine was picking up his company's payroll, worth about 15,000 Bolivian pesos, by mule. The man was attacked and robbed by two masked American bandits who were believed to be Longabaugh and Parker. ( Worldcat Identities). The bandits then proceeded to the small mining town of San Vicente, where they lodged in a small boarding house owned by Bonifacio Casasola, a local miner. Conclusion The Wild Bunch was a group of respectable men that made a living robbing trains and banks. They made history that will never be forgotten. When they came together, they were outlaws that had the same passion, robbing anything from banks to trains and causing mischief. They had no idea that they would form one of the most unstoppable outlaw groups and were about to form a brotherhood that would last for a lifetime. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, became two of the most notorious outlaws in history.
Tom Parker was born on June 26, 1909 in Breda, The Netherlands to Adam and Maria VanKuijk who named their fifth child Andreas Cornelius VanKuijk. As a young man Parker immigrated to the United States where he worked on carnivals and served four years in the United States Army.
They soon had multiple intriguing visitors. At the end of the war the remnants of Quantrill's gang turned to undisguised outlawry, becoming notorious as the gangs led by the Younger brothers and by Jesse and Frank James. They occasionally sought refuge at the Shirley farm, and Belle became close to Jesse James and his gang, the rest of the Youngers, and other outlaws, many of whom, like her brother, had served with Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War .... ... middle of paper ...
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Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker burst upon the American Southwest in the Great Depression year of 1932. At the time of Clyde’s first involvement with a murder, people paid little attention to the event. He was just another violent hoodlum in a nation with a growing list of brutal criminals, which included Al Capone, John Dillenger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barker Gang. Not until Bonnie and Clyde joined forces did the public become intrigued. The phrase “Bonnie and Clyde'; took on an electrifying and exotic meaning that has abated little in the past sixty years.
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Rose O’Neal Greenhow, also known as Wild Rose or Rebel Rose, was a Confederate supporter and spy during the American Civil War in the mid-1800s. Rose was born around 1813 or 1814. Her birth was never officially recorded, so no one knows for sure when her birthday was. She was born into a large slave-holding family in Montgomery County, Maryland. Out of the five daughters in her family, she was the third-born.
Ankle sprains are one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries and are especially relevant at all level of sport.1 Of all sports, the incidence of ankle sprain is higher in volleyball considering its non-contact nature.2 The most common ankle sprain occurs on the lateral or outside part of the ankle.3 Reports estimate that ankle sprains account for approximately 24% to 54% of all sport-related injuries and 23,000 persons get them per day in the United States.4
Christopher Johnson McCandless was a hiker who also went by the name Alexander Supertramp and ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 with a bit of food and equipment, hoping to live in isolation. Almost four months later, McCandless's body was found, weighing only 30kg. His story shocked many people and got the attention of magazine writer Jon Krakauer. At First he wrote a small article in the magazine Outside that sparked a lot of controversy with the readers. Since Krakauer got a lot of attention from his article, he decided to do more investigation on McCandless’s journey. Krakauer end up writing the book named Into the Wild and explains with plenty of detail McCandless’s life before his journey to the wilderness. Now a days, most teenager or young adult would never give up the life they have, because the way were so attach to electronics and our surroundings, for Chris McCandless is a different story he gave everything he had in life to go out and live a life in seclusion that caused him his death.
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