Butch Cassidy (1900)
Continuing with the Old West mythology we have Robert LeRoy Parker (1866 – 1908), who most of us know as Butch Cassidy. This was a truly romantic outlaw, whose tales are somewhat taller than his true stature. John D. Barton from the Utah State University had this to share, “Operating around the turn of the century, Cassidy and his partners put together the longest sequence of successful bank and train robberies in the history of the American West.”Here we have Cassidy happily joined by his “Wild Buch” in the iconic Fort Worth Five picture. John Swartz snapped this scene in 1900 at his Fort Worth, TX, studio. Cassidy was the leader of Tall Texan, Laura Bullion, Kid Curry, Elzy Lay, the Sundance Kid, Bob Meeks, and News Carver.
Butch Cassidy
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