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Butch Cassidy
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American Old West outlaw (1866–1908)
Key facts
- Born
- Robert LeRoy Parker , ( 1866-04-13 ) April 13, 1866, Beaver , Utah Territory , U.S.
- Died
- November 7, 1908 (1908-11-07) (aged 42), San Vicente Canton, Bolivia
- Cause of death
- Gunshot wounds
- Other names
- Butch Cassidy, Mike Cassidy, George Cassidy, Jim Lowe, Santiago Maxwell
- Occupations
- Farm hand, cowboy, butcher, thief, robber, gang leader, outlaw
- Years active
- 1880–1908
- Allegiance
- Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch
- Conviction
- Imprisoned in the territorial prison in Laramie, Wyoming for horse theft
- Criminal charge
- Horse theft, cattle rustling, bank and train robbery
- Penalty
- Served 18 months of a two-year sentence; released January 1896
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Parker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Beaver
- Place of death
- Bolivia
- Occupation
- criminal
- Image
- Butch Cassidy with bowler hat.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1866-04-13
- date of death
- 1908-11-07
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- Butch Cassidy
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- gunshot wound
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American cowboy, 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 pressures of being pursued by law enforcement, notably the Pinkerton detective agency, forced him to flee the United States. He fled with his accomplice Harry Longabaugh, known as the "Sundance Kid", and Longabaugh's girlfriend Etta Place. The trio traveled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh are believed to have been killed in a shootout with the Bolivian Army in November 1908; the exact circumstances of their fate are unclear.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Butch Cassidy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.