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Harry Longabaugh, aka "Sundance Kid," Frank Smith, H.A. Brown, Harry
A. Place, Harry Long (1867-1911?) - Born in Mont Clare,
Pennsylvania in 1867, he was only 15 years-old when he headed west
with a cousin. However, by the time he was 20, he stole a gun, a
saddle and a horse from a ranch in Sundance,
Wyoming,
only to be almost immediately captured. He was convicted and
spent 18 months in jail. After his release he worked as a
cowboy before being implicated in an 1892 train robbery by 1897
had hooked up with
Harvey Logan where they robbed a bank at Belle Fourche,
South Dakota on June 27th. Longabaugh and Logan were captured but
managed to escape from
Deadwood jail three months later. In 1900, the
Sundance Kid met
Butch Cassidy and moved to the Robber's Roost in
Utah,
joining the
Wild Bunch.
That same year, they held up the
Winnemucca National Bank in Nevada and then headed for South America
with their proceeds, all the while being pursued by Pinkertons. On
February 20, 1901,
Longabaugh sailed with
Butch Cassidy and Etta Place to Argentina. Though it is generally
accepted that both Butch and
Sundance were killed by soldiers in
Bolivia in November 1908, some say they both returned to the United
States, with
Sundance dying around 1936.
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