Butch Cassidy
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Fort Worth, Texas, 1900
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Robert Leroy Parker April 13, 1866 Beaver, Utah Territory, United States |
| Died | November 7, 1908 (aged 42) San Vicente, Bolivia |
| Cause of death | Gunshot |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Butch Cassidy, Mike Cassidy, George Cassidy, Jim Lowe, Santiago Maxwell, |
| Occupation | Farm hand, cowboy, thief, bank robber, train robber, criminal gang leader |
| Criminal charge | Horse theft, cattle rustling, bank and train robbery |
| Criminal penalty | Served 18 months of 2-year sentence; released January 1896 |
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| Allegiance | Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch |
| Conviction(s) | Imprisoned in the state prison in Laramie, Wyoming for horse theft |
| Partner(s) | Harry Longabaugh, AKA Sundance Kid, Elzy Lay, Matt Warner |
Robert Leroy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was a notorious American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch gang in the American Old West.
After pursuing a career in crime for several years in the United States, the pressures of being pursued, notably by the Pinkerton detective agency, forced him to flee with an accomplice, Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the Sundance Kid, and Longabaugh's girlfriend, Etta Place. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were probably killed in a shootout in November 1908.
Robert Leroy Parker was born on April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah, the first of 13 children born to British immigrants Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies. The Parker and Gillies families had converted in England and Scotland to the Mormon faith and emigrated to Utah. Maximilian Parker was 12 when his family arrived in Salt Lake in 1856 as Mormon pioneers; Ann Gillies arrived with her family in 1859, aged 14. The two were married in July 1865. In 2008 documented evidence highlighted, Ann Gillies, the mother of Butch Cassidy, was born and lived on Tyneside, in the north east of England, before moving to America with her parents, where she later married Butch's father, Maximilian Parker, in Utah.
Robert grew up on their ranch near Circleville, Utah, 346 km (215 mi) south of Salt Lake City. He left home during his early teens. While working at a dairy farm, he formed a close relationship with his mentor, a cowboy and cattle rustler who called himself Mike Cassidy (an alias for John Tolliver "J. T." McClammy). Parker subsequently worked at several ranches, in addition to a brief stint as a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming, when he acquired the nickname "Butch", to which he soon appended the surname Cassidy in honor of his old friend.
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