Butch Cassidy in 1893.

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Butch Cassidy, aka: Robert Leroy Parker, Hiram Bebee (1867-1911 or 1937) - Born in Beaver, Utah, Robert Leroy Parker, was raised in the Mormon faith on his parent's ranch near Circleville, Utah. While working at a local dairy farm when he was a teenager, he fell in with a horse and cattle rustler by the name of Mike Cassidy.

Later he worked on several ranches and at a butcher shop in Rock Springs, Wyoming for a brief time. It was when he worked for the meat cutter, that he got the nickname of "Butch." Later, he borrowed his friend's name "Cassidy."

Butch went on to lead the Wild Bunch gang, which robbed trains and banks in Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reportedly moved their operations to Bolivia, where they were believed to have been killed in a shootout with Bolivian troops in 1911. Evidence exists, however, that Butch Cassidy relocated to Spokane, Washington , where he lived under the alias William T. Phillips until he died of cancer in the county poorhouse on July 20, 1937. Persistent reports also claimed that the Sundance Kid returned to the United States where he allegedly lived under the name of Hiram Bebee until his death in Wyoming in 1955.

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