Life of Butch Cassidy

Born Robert Leroy Parker in Beaver, Utah, on Apr. 13, 1866, Cassidy was the oldest of 13 children and had no formal education. Cassidy became a cowboy while still in his teens when he met Mike Cassidy, adopting Cassidy's name after he joined him in rustling cattle in Utah and Colorado. He joined a gang every one later called the “wild bunch” who over they years would take over $15,000,00 from banks, trains and other robberies. After a robbery …

…soldiers remained behind the walls for the rest of the night and then ordered the owner of the home to go inside to see if the two men were still inside. Bonifacio entered the room to find both men dead. Butch was laying on the floor with a bullet in his temple and another one in his arm. Sundance was sitting on a bench with several bullets in his arms and one in his forehead.