Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Hole-in-the-Wall, Big Horn Mountains, Johnson County, Wyoming
Surnames/tags: American Outlaws Train Robbers

Contents 1 Gang of Western Outlaws 2 Hangouts &Hideouts 3 Members 3.1 Fort Worth Five 3.2 Other Members 4 Sources

Gang of Western Outlaws

Founded by Butch Cassidy

Years active 1899-1901

Territory Northern Wyoming

Ethnicity European-American

Membership (est.) 19

Criminal activities Horse and cattle theft, stagecoach, train and highway robbery, store and bank robbery

For several years, the Wild Bunch was one of the more successful criminal operations in the West, robbing banks and trains in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico, and successfully defending their Wyoming hideout from the law. The Wild Bunch even hired its own lawyer to defend its gang members, and their file in the Chicago offices of the Pinkerton Detective Agency became one of the thickest in the agency’s cabinets.^[1] In 1901 the gang dissolved, and Butch, The Sundance Kid and Etta Place set sail for South America.

Hangouts &Hideouts

• Hole-in-the-Wall, Big Horn Mountains, Johnson County, Wyoming (Founding location)
• Fannie Porter's Brothel

Members

Fort Worth Five

• Butch Cassidy
• Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, a.k.a. The Sun Dance Kid
• Kid Curry (known to be the wildest of the wild bunch)
• The Tall Texan
• News Carver

The Fort Worth Five (five members of the Wild Bunch)

Other Members

• Henry & Lonnie Logan (Kid Curry's brothers)
• Robert E. Lee (the Logan brothers' cousin)
• Laura Bullion
• Black Jack Ketchum
• William Ellsworth "Elzy" Lay
• William T. Wilcox AKA William T. Phillips

Sources

• Hole in the Wall Hideout
• Wyoming State Parks