Sundance Kid - Thief - Biography.com Sundance Kid Sundance Kid was an American criminal best known for his train robberies and bank heists with the Wild Bunch gang in the late 1890s and early 1900s. IN THESE GROUPS Name Changers Synopsis American criminal Sundance Kid, originally named Harry Longabaugh, was born in 1867 in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania. At age 15, he headed west and received his nickname when was arrested for stealing a horse in Sundance, Wyoming. After a couple of years in jail, Sundance Kid resumed a career in crime, robbing trains and banks. Named the Wild Bunch, he and his conspirators went on the longest crime spree in the history of the American West. Sundance Kid eventually fled to South America where he continued his life of crime. Historians disagree on his death with some citing a shootout in Bolivia on November 3, 1908 while others suggest he returned to the U.S. under the name William Long and lived there until 1936. Early Years Harry Alonzo Longabaugh was born in 1867 in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania.

He was considered the fastest gunslinger in the Wild Bunch, a well-known gang of robbers and cattle rustlers that roamed the American West during the 1880s and 1890s. Longabaugh was just 15 when he left home for good. He took his nickname from the Wyoming town of Sundance, where he was arrested for the only time in his life after stealing a horse. For the crime, Sundance served nearly two years in jail. Upon his release in 1889, he attempted to create an honest life for himself as a cowboy. The Wild Bunch By the early 1890s, Sundance was back to being an outlaw. Authorities fingered him for a train robbery in 1892, and five years later for a bank heist that he pulled off with a group that came to be known as the Wild Bunch. The gang largely consisted of Robert Parker (aka Butch Cassidy), Harry Tracy (“Elzy Lay”), Ben Kilpatrick (the “Tall Texan”) and Harvey Logan (“Kid Curry”). Together, the group embarked on the longest stretch of successful train and bank robberies in the history of the American West.

Among the men, Sundance was considered to be the fastest gunslinger, though historical evidence indicates he never killed anyone during the Wild Bunch’s run. The gang’s robberies were scattered around parts of South Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming. Between robberies, the men hid out at Hole-in-the-Wall Pass, located in Johnson County, Wyoming, where several outlaw gangs had their hideouts. With each new robbery, the Wild Bunch became better known and well liked by an American public eager to read about their exploits. Their robberies also became bigger. One of the largest was a $70,000 haul from a train just outside Folsom, New Mexico. Unable to stop the Wild Bunch, the Union Pacific Railroad hired the famed Pinkerton National Detective Agency to find and arrest Sundance and the rest of the gang. Perhaps sensing their run was over, Sundance and Cassidy pushed into South America, first to Argentina, where they tried to make it as honest farmers. With the pair was Etta Place, a former prostitute who’d become Sundance’s lover. Final Years An honest life, however, was not a good fit for either Sundance or Cassidy.

Before long the two were back to being outlaws, robbing banks and trains just as they’d done in the States. As the story goes, Cassidy and Sundance lost their lives in a shootout with soldiers in southern Bolivia on November 3, 1908, but the truth of their end has never been fully settled. Debate lingers over where and when Sundance actually died. One account, which bears some historical evidence, suggests he returned to the United States under a new name, William Long, and settled into a new life as a Utah rancher. According to the story, he married a widow with six children in 1894 and lived to be an old man, eventually dying in 1936. Whatever the true story might be, Sundance is one of the real legends of the American West. In 1969, his life and relationship with Butch Cassidy was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman (Cassidy) and Robert Redford (Sundance). Related Videos Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us !

Citation Information Harry Longabaugh (Sundance Kid) Outlaw First Posted: May 5, 2010 Oct 11, 2010 Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (Sundance Kid) Outlaw Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) and Etta Place, just before they headed to South America. Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (Sundance Kid) Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 - November 6, 1908?), sometimes spelled Longbaugh, born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, also known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Notoriety, Riding with Butch Cassidy In 1887, Harry Longabaugh was convicted of horse theft and sentenced to 18 months in the Sundance, Wyoming, jail. Because of this jail time he was called the Sundance Kid. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) sometime after Parker was released from prison around 1896.

They formed the "Wild Bunch Gang." Together with the other members of the gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American and Old West history. Little is known of Longabaugh's exploits prior to his riding with Parker. However, this is known: in 1891 Harry Longabaugh was a 25 year old ranch hand working at the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada. The Bar U was one of the largest commercial ranches of the time. Although Longabaugh was reportedly fast with a gun and often referred to as a "gunfighter" he is not known to have killed anyone prior to a later shootout in Bolivia, where he and Parker were alleged to have been killed. He became better known than another outlaw member of the gang dubbed "Kid," Kid Curry (real name Harvey Logan), who killed numerous men while with the gang. It is possible that often the "Sundance Kid" was mistaken for "Kid Curry," since many articles referred to "the Kid." Longabaugh did participate in a shootout with lawmen who trailed a gang led by George Curry to the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout in Wyoming and was thought to have wounded two lawmen in that shootout.

With that exception, though, his verified involvement in shootouts is unknown. Longabaugh and Logan used a log cabin at what is now Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, as a hide-out before they robbed a bank in Red Lodge, Montana. Parker, Longabaugh and other desperados met at another cabin brought to Old Trail Town from the Hole-in-the-Wall country in north central Wyoming. That cabin was built in 1883 by Alexander Ghent. Historically, the gang was for a time best known for their lack of violence during the course of their robberies, relying heavily on intimidation and negotiation, but nevertheless if captured they would have faced hanging. However, that portrayal of the gang is less than accurate and mostly a result of Hollywood portrayals depicting them as usually "non-violent." In reality, several people were killed by members of the gang, including five law enforcement officers killed by Logan alone. "Wanted dead or alive" posters were posted throughout the country, with as much as a $30,000 reward for information leading to their capture or death. They began hiding out at the Hole In The Wall, located near Kaycee, Wyoming.

From there they could strike and retreat, with little fear of capture, since it was situated on high ground with a view in all directions of the surrounding territory. Pinkerton detectives led by Charlie Siringo, however, hounded the gang for a couple of years. Parker and Longabaugh, evidently wanting to allow things to calm down a bit and looking for fresher robbing grounds, left the United States on February 20, 1901. Longabaugh sailed with his "wife" Etta Place and Parker aboard the British ship Herminius for Buenos Aires in Argentina. Longabaugh's Death The facts concerning Longabaugh's death are not known for certain. On November 3, 1908, near San Vicente in southern Bolivia, a courier for the Aramayo Franke y Cia Silver Mine was conveying his company's payroll, worth about 15,000 Bolivian pesos, by mule when he was attacked and robbed by two masked American bandits who were believed to be Longabaugh and Parker.

The bandits then proceeded to the small mining town of San Vicente where they lodged in a small boarding house owned by a local resident miner named Bonifacio Casasola. When Casasola became suspicious of his two foreign lodgers, as well as a mule they had in their possession which was from the Aramayo Mine, identifiable from the mine company logo on the mule's left flank, Casasola left his house and notified a nearby telegraph officer who notified a small Bolivian Army cavalry unit stationed nearby, which was the Abaroa Regiment. The unit dispatched three soldiers, under the command of Captain Justa Concha, to San Vicente where they notified the local authorities. On the evening of November 6, the lodging house was surrounded by a small group consisting of the local mayor and some of his officials, along with the three soldiers to arrest the Aramayo robbers. When the three soldiers approached the house where the two bandits were residing, the bandits opened fire, killing one of the soldiers and wounding another. A gunfight then ensued. At around 2 a.m., during a lull in the firing, the police and soldiers heard a man screaming from inside the house.

Soon, a single shot was heard from inside the house, in which the screaming stopped. Minutes later, another shot was heard. The standoff continued as locals kept the place surrounded until the next morning when, cautiously entering, they found two dead bodies, both with numerous bullet wounds to the arms and legs. One of the men had a bullet wound in the forehead and the other had a bullet hole in the temple. The local police report speculated that, judging from the positions of the bodies, that one bandit had probably shot his fatally wounded partner-in-crime to put him out of his misery, just before killing himself with his final bullet. In the following investigation by the Tupiza police, the bandits were identified as the men who robbed the Aramayo payroll transport, but the Bolivian authorities didn't know their real names, nor could they positively identify them. The bodies were buried at the small San Vicente cemetery, where they were buried close to the grave of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer. Although attempts have been made to find their unmarked graves, notably by the American forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his researchers in 1991, no remains with DNA matching the living relatives of Parker and Longabaugh have yet been discovered.

This uncertainty has, perhaps inevitably, led to many claims that one or both eventually returned to the United States and there lived on. One of these claims, for example, was that Longabaugh lived under the name of William Henry Long in the small town of Duchesne, Utah. Long died in 1936 and was buried in the town cemetery. His remains were exhumed in December 2008, and testing was done to determine whether he was Harry Longabaugh, and the results did not support this theory. However, until the San Vicente bodies are finally rediscovered (they were buried together in an unmarked grave in the local San Vicente cemetery) and forensically examined, these claims may remain a matter for dispute. Aliases: The Sundance Kid, Frank Smith, H.A. Brown, Harry A. Place (his mother's maiden name was Annie Place), Harry Long Harry Alonzo "Sundance Kid" Longabaugh (1867 - 1909) - Find A Grave Memorial Harry Alonzo "Sundance Kid" Longabaugh Death: Nov.

6, 1909 Harry Alonzo Longabaugh better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) after Parker was released from prison around 1896. Together with the other members of "The Wild Bunch" gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history. The facts concerning Longabaugh's death are not known for certain. On November 3, 1908, near San Vicente in southern Bolivia, a courier for the Aramayo Franke y Cia Silver Mine was conveying his company's payroll, worth about 15,000 Bolivian pesos, by mule when he was attacked and robbed by two masked American bandits who were believed to be Longabaugh and Parker. The bandits then proceeded to the small mining town of San Vicente where they lodged in a small boarding house owned by a local miner named Bonifacio Casasola.

When Casasola became suspicious of his two foreign lodgers (a mule they had in their possession was from the Aramayo Mine, and was identifiable because of the mine company logo on the mule's left flank) Casasola left his house and informed a nearby telegraph officer who notified a small Bolivian Army cavalry unit (the Abaroa Regiment) stationed nearby. The unit dispatched three soldiers, under the command of Captain Justa Concha, to San Vicente where they notified the local authorities. On the evening of 6 November, the lodging house was surrounded by a small group consisting of the local mayor and a number of his officials, along with the three soldiers from the Abaroa Regiment. When the three soldiers approached the house where the two bandits were staying, the bandits opened fire, killing one of the soldiers and wounding another. A gunfight then ensued. At around 2 a.m., during a lull in the firing, the police and soldiers heard a man screaming from inside the house. Soon, a single shot was heard from inside the house, after which the screaming stopped. Minutes later, another shot was heard.

The standoff continued as locals kept the place surrounded until the next morning when, cautiously entering, they found two dead bodies, both with numerous bullet wounds to the arms and legs. One of the men had a bullet wound in the forehead and the other had a bullet hole in the temple. The local police report speculated that, judging from the positions of the bodies, one bandit had probably shot his fatally wounded partner-in-crime to put him out of his misery, just before killing himself with his final bullet. In the following investigation by the Tupiza police, the bandits were identified as the men who robbed the Aramayo payroll transport, but the Bolivian authorties did not know their real names, nor could they positively identify them. The bodies were buried at the small San Vicente cemetery, where they were buried close to the grave of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer. Although attempts have been made to find their unmarked graves, notably by the American forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his researchers in 1991, no remains with DNA matching the living relatives of Parker and Longabaugh have been discovered. This uncertainty has led to many claims that one or both survived and eventually returned to the United States.

One of these claims was that Longabaugh lived under the name of William Henry Long in the small town of Duchesne, Utah. Long died in 1936 and was buried in the town cemetery. His remains were exhumed in December 2008, and testing was performed to determine whether he was Harry Longabaugh,but the results did not support the William Long theory. A semi-fictitious history of the Wild West from 1757-1928 according to the movies - Movies List on MUBI A semi-fictitious history of the Wild West from 1757-1928 according to the movies Followers 4 The only prerequisite for this list is that events take place between said dates somewhere in the Americas. Suggests for new additions to the timeline would be welcomed.

The American West 1757 (French and Indian War) The Mohican Uncas is killed in a confrontation with a Huron war party (1) 1820 In Southern California the outlaw El Zorro declares war on the corrupt municipal manager Luis Quintero (2) 1825 John Morgan is captured by the Dakota Sioux (3) 1855 American soldier of fortune William Walker invades Nicaragua and assumes the Presidency (4) Captain Kirby York, a soldier a Fort Apache, circa 1865 1861 – 1865 (American Civil War) A… Read more The only prerequisite for this list is that events take place between said dates somewhere in the Americas. Suggests for new additions to the timeline would be welcomed.

The American West 1757 (French and Indian War) The Mohican Uncas is killed in a confrontation with a Huron war party (1) 1820 In Southern California the outlaw El Zorro declares war on the corrupt municipal manager Luis Quintero (2) 1825 John Morgan is captured by the Dakota Sioux (3) 1855 American soldier of fortune William Walker invades Nicaragua and assumes the Presidency (4) Captain Kirby York, a soldier a Fort Apache, circa 1865 1861 – 1865 (American Civil War) A shootout over buried gold at Sad Hill Cemetery leaves a union sergeant (nicknamed, “Angel Eyes”) dead (5) Union cavalry officer Major Amos Dundee becomes head of a prisoner-of-war camp in the New Mexico Territory (6) 1861 Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles join the First Missouri Irregulars, also known as the Bushwhackers (7) 1863 First Lieutenant John J.

Dunbar is assigned to Fort Dunbar on the Western Frontier (8) Colonel John Marlowe leads a Union cavalry brigade behind Confederate lines to destroy a railroad at Newton Station (9) 1865 Rancher Thomas Dudson sets out to drive his massive cattle herd hundreds of miles north to Missouri (10) At the close of the civil war Confederate Soldier Josey Wales refuses surrender and guns down several Union soldiers.

A bounty of $5000 is put on his head (11) Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday takes command at US cavalry post Fort Apache (12) Mercanaries Ben Trane and Joe Erin in Mexico, during the Franco-Mexican war 1861 – 1867 Franco-Mexican War Seeking a job as a mercenary, Ex-Confederate soldier Ben Trane travels to Mexico, where falls in with Joe Erin (13) 1866 Ben Mockridge joins Frank Culpepper’s cattle drive to Fort Lewis (14) 1868 Ethan Edwards returns home from the Civil War (15) Reformed outlaw Link Jones travels to Fort Worth, where he intends to use the community of Good Hope’s savings to hire a schoolteacher (16) Howard Kemp begins tracking Ben Vandergroat for the murder of a marshal in Kansas (17) The Waco Kid relaxes with Sheriff Bart of Rock Ridge, circa 1874 1870s Brett McBain and his family are slain by mercenaries believed to have been working for railway tycoon Morton (18) 1874 Former railroad worker Bart becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge

 (19) 1876 Jack Crabb warns General George Armstrong Custer of a Native American ambush waiting for him at Little Big Horn.

Custer, believing Crabb to be lying, leads his 7th cavalry to their doom (20) Following the defeat of General Custer, aging US Cavalry Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles is ordered to deal with a breakout from the reservation by the Cheyenne and Arapaho (21) James Butler Hickok (better known as Wild Bill) is shot and killed while playing poker by John “Jack” McCall (22) 1878 Marshal Reuben “Rooster” J. Cogburn is hired by 14 year old Mattie Ross to hunt down the killer of her father (23) Feared outlaw William Munny in Big Whisky, Wyoming, 1881 1879 Billy the Kid is kidnapped and taken to the future (24) 1880s Sheriff John T. Chance arrests Joe Burdette (brother of rancher Nathan Burdette) for murder (25) Famed outlaw Ben Wade is arrested in Bisbee, Arizona.

His henchman Charlie Prince avoids capture and rounds up a gang to liberate Wade from justice (26) Cattle baron Rufus Ryker is shot and killed over a land dispute in Wyoming (27) 1880 In Lordsburg, New Mexico, a shootout takes place between the fugitive Ringo Kid and the Plummer brothers (28) 1881 In Big Whiskey, Wyoming Sheriff Little Bill Daggett is shot and killed by legendary gunfighter William Munny (29) Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid feud over a woman named Rio McDonald (30) Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen shortly before his arrest in 1885.

With Clint Eastwood 1882 Jesse James is shot in the back by the coward Robert Ford (31) Land Baron Denton Baxter is killed after a feud with cattlemen Bluebonnet “Boss” Spearman and Charles Travis “Charley” Postlewaite (32) Roy Bean is appointed Justice of the Peace for Pecos, Texas (33) Following the murder of his brother James, Wyatt Earp becomes marshal in the town of Tombstone (34) 1885 Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen is arrested for the robbery of the Pine City Stagecoach (35) 1887 Doc Holiday dies in a Sanatorium near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. His last words are reported to have been, “I’ll be damned.

Oh, this is funny” (36) 1892 The Wyoming Stock Growers Association meet to confirm their plans to kill 125 named settlers they consider to be "thieves and anarchists” (37) 1899 In Utah, the mute gunfighter Silence is hired to kill a bounty hunter known only as Loco (38) Aging gunslinger Jack Beauregard is believed killed in a shootout with a man called Nobody (39) Cable Hogue at the site that would become Cable Springs in 1908 early 1900s Steve Judd takes a job guarding gold shipments from a mining camp to the town of Hornitos, California (40) 1901 Legendary gunfighter John Bernard “J.

B.” Books is shot and killed in Carson City, Nevada (41) 1902 Mineral Prospector Daniel Plainview strikes oil (42) 1908 Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) are believed to have been killed by the Bolivian Army (43) Stranded in the desert, Cable Hogue discovers water, buys the land and sets up Cable Spring (44) 1909 In New Mexico, Pat Garrett is ambushed and killed by men working for the Santa Fe Ring (45) The men behind the murder of the infamous bandit El Guapo, 1916 1910-1920 Elias, a General of the Mexican Revolution, is assassinated (46) Yodlaf Peterson, a Swedish mercenary, arrives in Mexico to sell guns to General Mongo (47) 1913 Mexican warlord Mapache and his entire army are wiped out by American outlaw Pike Bishop and his gang (48) 1916 The Infamous Mexican bandit El Guapo is murdered, supposedly by three blacklisted American silent movie stars residing

 in the town of Santo Poco (49) 1928 Robert LeRoy Parker (now going by the name James Blackthorn) resurfaces, alive, in Bolivia and decides to return to the United States (50) 1000+ images about Ancestry : Butch Cassidy on Pinterest | The wild bunch, Utah and Denver Forward Etta Place was a companion of the American outlaws Butch Cassidy (real name Robert LeRoy Parker) and the Sundance Kid (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh), both members of the outlaw gang known as the Wild Bunch.

Principally the companion of Longabaugh, little is known about her; both her origin and her fate remain mysterious. Despite Longabaugh and Parker's fame, by the mid-20th century, it was the mysterious vanishing of Place that sparked the most interest, which continues to the present day. See More Sundance Kid Sundance Kid Harry Alonzo Longabaugh 1867Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, United States Died November 6, 1908San Vicente, Bolivia Alias(es) Edit Block Sundance Kid and Place before they headed to South America Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – c. November 6, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) after Parker was released from prison around 1896. Together with the other members of "The Wild Bunch" gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history.

Early life and career Edit Block Longabaugh was born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, in 1867. At age 15, he traveled westward on a covered wagon with his cousin George. In 1887, Longabaugh stole a gun, horse and saddle from a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming. While attempting to flee he was captured by authorities and was convicted, being sentenced to 18 months in jail by Judge William L. Maginnis. During this jail time he adopted the nickname of the Sundance Kid. After his release, he went back to working as a ranch hand and in 1891, as a 25-year-old, he worked at the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada, which was one of the largest commercial ranches of the time. Longabaugh was suspected in 1892 in a train robbery, then again in 1897 in a bank robbery along with five other men. He became associated with a group known as the "Wild Bunch" which included his famous partner Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy.

Although Longabaugh was reportedly fast with a gun and often referred to as a "gunfighter", he is not known to have killed anyone prior to a later shootout in Bolivia, where he and Parker were alleged to have been killed. He became better known than another outlaw member of the gang dubbed "Kid", Kid Curry (real name Harvey Logan), who killed numerous men while with the gang. It is possible that often the "Sundance Kid" was mistaken for "Kid Curry", since many articles referred to "the Kid". Longabaugh did participate in a shootout with lawmen who trailed a gang led by George Curry to the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout in Wyoming and was thought to have wounded two lawmen in that shootout. With that exception, though, his verified involvement in shootouts is unknown. Longabaugh and Logan used a log cabin at what is now Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, as a hide-out before they robbed a bank in Red Lodge, Montana. Parker, Longabaugh and other desperados met at another cabin brought to Old Trail Town from the Hole-in-the-Wall country in north central Wyoming. That cabin was built in 1883 by Alexander Ghent.

Historically, the gang was for a time best known for their lack of violence during the course of their robberies, relying heavily on intimidation and negotiation, but nevertheless if captured they would have faced hanging. However, that portrayal of the gang is less than accurate and mostly a result of Hollywood portrayals depicting them as usually "non-violent". In reality, several people were killed by members of the gang, including five law enforcement officers killed by Logan alone. "Wanted dead or alive" posters were posted throughout the country, with as much as a $30,000 reward for information leading to their capture or death. They began hiding out at the Hole In The Wall, located near Kaycee, Wyoming. From there they could strike and retreat, with little fear of capture, since it was situated on high ground with a view in all directions of the surrounding territory. Pinkerton detectives led by Charlie Siringo, however, hounded the gang for a couple of years. Parker and Longabaugh, evidently wanting to allow things to calm down a bit and looking for fresher robbing grounds, left the United States on February 20, 1901.

Longabaugh sailed with his "wife" Etta Place and Parker aboard the British ship Herminius for Buenos Aires in Argentina. Death Edit Block The facts concerning Longabaugh's death are not known for certain. On November 3, 1908, near San Vicente in southern Bolivia, a courier for the Aramayo Franke y Cia Silver Mine was conveying his company's payroll, worth about 15,000 Bolivian pesos, by mule when he was attacked and robbed by two masked American bandits who were believed to be Longabaugh and Parker. The bandits then proceeded to the small mining town of San Vicente where they lodged in a small boarding house owned by a local miner named Bonifacio Casasola. When Casasola became suspicious of his two foreign lodgers (a mule they had in their possession was from the Aramayo Mine, and was identifiable because of the mine company logo on the mule's left flank) Casasola left his house and informed a nearby telegraph officer who notified a small Bolivian Army cavalry unit (the Abaroa Regiment) stationed nearby.

The unit dispatched three soldiers, under the command of Captain Justa Concha, to San Vicente where they notified the local authorities. On the evening of 6 November, the lodging house was surrounded by a small group consisting of the local mayor and a number of his officials, along with the three soldiers from the Abaroa Regiment. When the three soldiers approached the house where the two bandits were staying, the bandits opened fire, killing one of the soldiers and wounding another. A gunfight then ensued. At around 2 a.m., during a lull in the firing, the police and soldiers heard a man screaming from inside the house. Soon, a single shot was heard from inside the house, after which the screaming stopped. Minutes later, another shot was heard. The standoff continued as locals kept the place surrounded until the next morning when, cautiously entering, they found two dead bodies, both with numerous bullet wounds to the arms and legs. One of the men had a bullet wound in the forehead and the other had a bullet hole in the temple.

The local police report speculated that, judging from the positions of the bodies, one bandit had probably shot his fatally wounded partner-in-crime to put him out of his misery, just before killing himself with his final bullet. In the following investigation by the Tupiza police, the bandits were identified as the men who robbed the Aramayo payroll transport, but the Bolivian authorties did not know their real names, nor could they positively identify them. The bodies were buried at the small San Vicente cemetery, where they were buried close to the grave of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer. Although attempts have been made to find their unmarked graves, notably by the American forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his researchers in 1991, no remains with DNA matching the living relatives of Parker and Longabaugh have been discovered. This uncertainty has led to many claims that one or both survived and eventually returned to the United States. One of these claims was that Longabaugh lived under the name of William Henry Long in the small town of Duchesne, Utah. Long died in 1936 and was buried in the town cemetery.

His remains were exhumed in December 2008, and testing was performed to determine whether he was Harry Longabaugh, but the results did not support the William Long theory. Aliases Harry A. Place (his mother's maiden name was Annie Place) Harry Long Montgomery County Pennsylvania History and Genealogy Sundance Kid and Etta Place(?) Prior to Leaving for Bolivia Harry Alonzo Longabaugh Alias Sundance Kid Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 - 6 November 1908?), sometimes spelled Longbaugh, born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, supposedly the youngest of five children of Josiah and Annie Place Longabaugh, also known as The Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Notoriety, riding with Butch Cassidy In 1887, Harry Longabaugh was convicted of horse theft and sentenced to 18 months in the Sundance, Wyoming, jail. Because of this jail time he was called the Sundance Kid. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert LeRoy Parker) sometime after Parker was released from prison around 1896.

They formed the "Wild Bunch Gang." Together with the other members of the gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American and Old West history. Little is known of Longabaugh's exploits prior to his riding with Parker. However, this is known: in 1891 Harry Longabaugh was a 25 year old ranch hand working at the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada. The Bar U was one of the largest commercial ranches of the time. Although Longabaugh was reportedly fast with a gun and often referred to as a "gunfighter", he is not known to have killed anyone prior to a later shootout in Bolivia, where he and Parker were alleged to have been killed. He became better known than another outlaw member of the gang dubbed "Kid", Kid Curry (real name Harvey Logan), who killed numerous men while with the gang. It is possible that often the "Sundance Kid" was mistaken for "Kid Curry", since many articles referred to "the Kid". Longabaugh did participate in a shootout with lawmen who trailed a gang led by George Curry to the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout in Wyoming and was thought to have wounded two lawmen in that shootout.

With that exception, though, his verified involvement in shootouts is unknown. Longabaugh and Logan used a log cabin at what is now Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, as a hide-out before they robbed a bank in Red Lodge, Montana. Parker, Longabaugh and other desperados met at another cabin brought to Old Trail Town from the Hole-in-the-Wall country in north central Wyoming. That cabin was built in 1883 by Alexander Ghent. Historically, the gang was for a time best known for their lack of violence during the course of their robberies, relying heavily on intimidation and negotiation, but nevertheless if captured they would have faced hanging. However, that portrayal of the gang is less than accurate and mostly a result of Hollywood portrayals depicting them as usually "non-violent". In reality, several people were killed by members of the gang, including five law enforcement officers killed by Logan alone. "Wanted dead or alive" posters were posted throughout the country, with as much as a $30,000 reward for information leading to their capture or death. They began hiding out at the Hole In The Wall, located near Kaycee, Wyoming.

From there they could strike and retreat, with little fear of capture, since it was situated on high ground with a view in all directions of the surrounding territory. Pinkerton detectives led by Charlie Siringo, however, hounded the gang for a couple of years. [3] Parker and Longabaugh, evidently wanting to allow things to calm down a bit and looking for fresher robbing grounds, left the United States on February 20, 1901. Longabaugh sailed with his "wife" Etta Place and Parker aboard the British ship Herminius for Buenos Aires in Argentina Longabaugh's death The facts concerning Longabaugh's death are not known for certain. On November 3, 1908, near San Vicente in southern Bolivia, a courier for the Aramayo Franke y Cia Silver Mine was conveying his company's payroll by mule when he was robbed by two American bandits. The bandits were subsequently traced to a lodging house in San Vicente where they had been staying. The building was subsequently surrounded by a small group comprising the local town mayor and some of his officials, and two soldiers.

In the gunfight which followed, the two bandits were certainly killed, although it remains a matter of conjecture as to whether the two were in fact Longabaugh and Parker. This uncertainly has, perhaps inevitably, led to many claims that one or both eventually returned to the United States and there lived on. One of these claims, for example, was that Longabaugh lived under the name of William Henry Long in the small town of Duchesne, Utah. Long died in 1936 and was buried in the town cemetery. His remains were exhumed in December 2008, and testing is being done to determine whether he was Harry Longabaugh. However, until the San Vicente bodies are finally rediscovered (they were buried together in an unmarked grave in the local San Vicente cemetery) and forensically examined, these claims must remain a matter for dispute. According to an article published in the Deseret News, dated December 16, 2008, Long took his own life at his home outside Duchesne on Nov. 27, 1936, as told by his step-granddaughter Etta Forsyth.

Etta was 91 at the time the article was written and remembered Long as being kind and loving toward herself and grandmother. Sources: Wikipedia & Deseret News Article dated December 16, 2008 by By Geoff Liesik - Transcribed by C. Anthony The Gunfighters: The Sundance Kid | Des Nnochiri's Write to Speak Des Nnochiri's Write to Speak 'Cos That's What We Do, Here Hey there! Thanks for dropping by Des Nnochiri's Write to Speak! Take a look around and grab the RSS feed to stay updated. See you around! Filed under: Uncategorized — Leave a comment June 2, 2013 Harry (or Henry) Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – possibly November 6, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Together with the other members of “The Wild Bunch” gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history.

In the 1969 film, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, Robert Redford played Sundance, opposite Paul Newman, as Butch Cassidy. Video comes courtesy of YouTube: So much for Hollywood. Here’s what history has to tell us: Sundance’s Early Life and Career Longabaugh was born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, in 1867, the son of Pennsylvania natives Josiah and Annie G. (born Place) Longabaugh. He was the youngest of five children (his older siblings were Ellwood, Samanna, Emma and Harvey). Longabaugh was of mostly English and German ancestry and was also part Welsh. At age 15, the young Harry Longabaugh traveled westward on a covered wagon with his cousin George. In 1887, Longabaugh stole a gun, horse and saddle from a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming. While attempting to flee, he was captured by authorities and was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail by Judge William L. Maginnis. It was during this jail time, that he adopted the nickname of the Sundance Kid.

After his release, Longabaugh went back to working as a ranch hand, and in 1891, as a 25-year-old, he worked at the Bar U Ranch in what is today Alberta, Canada – which was one of the largest commercial ranches of the time. The Wild Bunch Longabaugh was suspected in 1892 in a train robbery, then again in 1897 in a bank robbery, along with five other men. He soon became associated with a group known as the “Wild Bunch”, which included his famous partner Robert Leroy Parker – better known as Butch Cassidy. Although Longabaugh was reportedly fast with a gun and was often referred to as a “gunfighter”, he is not known to have killed anyone prior to a later shootout in Bolivia, where he and Parker were alleged to have been killed. He became better known than another outlaw member of the gang dubbed “Kid” – Kid Curry (real name Harvey Logan), who killed numerous men while with the gang. The “Sundance Kid” was possibly mistaken for “Kid Curry”, since many articles simply referred to “the Kid”.

Longabaugh did participate in a shootout with lawmen who trailed a gang led by George Curry to the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout in Wyoming, and was thought to have wounded two lawmen in that shootout. With that exception, though, his verified involvement in shootouts is unknown. Historically, the gang was for a time best known for their lack of violence during the course of their robberies, relying heavily on intimidation and negotiation. However, that view of the gang is less than accurate, and mostly a result of Hollywood portrayals depicting them as usually “nonviolent”. In reality, several people were killed by members of the gang, including five law enforcement officers killed by Logan, alone. “Wanted dead or alive” posters were posted throughout the country, with as much as a $30,000 reward for information leading to their capture or deaths. The Hole in the Wall The Wild Bunch began hiding out at Hole-in-the-Wall, located near Kaycee, Wyoming. From there they could strike and retreat, with little fear of capture, since it was situated on high ground with a view in all directions of the surrounding territory. Nonetheless, Pinkerton detectives led by Charlie Siringo hounded the gang for several years.

Pastures New Parker and Longabaugh – evidently hoping for a respite, and looking for fresher robbing grounds – left the United States on February 20, 1901. Longabaugh sailed with his “wife” Etta Place and Parker, aboard the British ship Herminius for Buenos Aires in Argentina. Death of the Sundance Kid – Maybe The facts concerning Longabaugh’s death are not known for certain. On November 3, 1908, near San Vicente in southern Bolivia, a courier for the Aramayo Franke y Cia Silver Mine was conveying his company’s payroll, worth about 15,000 Bolivian pesos, by mule, when he was attacked and robbed by two masked American bandits who were believed to be Longabaugh and Parker. The bandits made for the small mining town of San Vicente, where they lodged in a boarding house owned by a local miner named Bonifacio Casasola.

When Casasola became suspicious of his two foreign lodgers (a mule they had in their possession was from the Aramayo Mine, and bore the mining company’s brand), Casasola left his house and informed a nearby telegraph officer, who notified a small Bolivian Army cavalry unit (the Abaroa Regiment) stationed nearby. The cavalry unit dispatched three soldiers, under the command of Captain Justa Concha, to San Vicente, where they notified the local authorities. On the evening of 6 November, the lodging house was surrounded by a small group consisting of the local mayor and a number of his officials, along with the three soldiers from the Abaroa Regiment. When two of the soldiers approached the house where the bandits were staying, the bandits opened fire, killing one of the soldiers and wounding the other. A gunfight then ensued. Around 2 a.m., during a lull in the firing, the police and soldiers heard a man screaming from inside the house. Soon, a single shot was heard from inside the building, after which the screaming stopped. Minutes later, another shot was heard.

The standoff continued, as locals kept the place surrounded until the next morning when, cautiously entering, they found two dead bodies, both with numerous bullet wounds to the arms and legs. One of the men had a bullet wound in the forehead and the other had a bullet hole in the temple. The local police report speculated, judging from the positions of the bodies, that one bandit had probably shot his fatally wounded partner-in-crime to put him out of his misery, just before killing himself with his final bullet. In the investigation by the Tupiza police that followed, the bandits were identified as the men who robbed the Aramayo payroll transport, but the Bolivian authorities did not know their real names, nor could they positively identify them. The bodies were buried at the small San Vicente cemetery, close to the grave of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer. Attempts have since been made to find their unmarked graves (notably by the American forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his researchers in 1991), but no remains with DNA matching the living relatives of Parker and Longabaugh have been discovered. This uncertainty has led to many claims that one or both survived and eventually returned to the United States A Survivor?

One of these claims was that Longabaugh lived under the name of William Henry Long in the small town of Duchesne, Utah. Long died in 1936, and was buried in the town cemetery. His remains were exhumed in December 2008, and testing was performed to determine whether he was Harry Longabaugh, but the results did not support the William Long theory. Meanwhile, research at San Vicente is ongoing. I have to be going now, too. Till next time. Gunfighter - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics Harry Longabaugh Did you know ... Encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the Old West profession or avocation . For the 1950 movie, see The Gunfighter (film) . For other uses, see Gunslinger (disambiguation) . For the American football player popularly known as the Gunslinger, see Brett Favre .

Gunfighter, also gunslinger, is a 20th century name, used in cinema or literature, referring to men in the American Old West who had gained a reputation as being dangerous with a gun. Contents 9 References Origin of the term Noted amateur etymologist Barry Popik has traced the term "gun slinger" back to its use in the 1920 Western movie Drag Harlan. [1] The word was soon adopted by other Western writers such as Zane Grey and became common usage. In his introduction to The Shootist , author Glendon Swarthout says that "gunslinger" and "gunfighter" are modern terms and that the more authentic terms for the period would have been "gunman", "pistoleer", "shootist" or "bad man". While Swarthout seems to have been correct about "gunslinger", Bat Masterson used the term "gunfighter" in the newspaper articles he wrote about the lawmen and outlaws he had known. Clay Allison (1841–1887), a notorious New Mexico and Texas gunman and cattleman originated the term, "shootist".

Chuck Parsons, Clay Allison: Portrait of a Shootist (Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer, 1983). Usage Often the term was applied to men who would hire out for contract killings or at a ranch embroiled in a range war where they would earn "fighting wages." Others, like Billy the Kid , were notorious bandits and still others were lawmen like Pat Garrett and Wyatt Earp . A gunslinger could be an outlaw , a robber or murderer who took advantage of the wilderness of the frontier to hide from, and make periodic raids on genteel society. The gunfighter could also be an agent of the state, archetypally a lone avenger, but more often a sheriff , whose duty was to face the outlaw and bring him to or, more likely, personally administer justice. The title is often misused in historical accounts to describe men killed in gunfights. For instance, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral victims Billy Clanton , Frank McLaury , and Tom McLaury were called "gunfighters", when the three were simply cowboys and ranchers, as that fight was their first and only.

Gunslingers frequently appear, along with cowboys , as stock characters in Western movies and novels . In Western movies, the characters' gun belts are often worn low on the hip and outer thigh, with the gun having an exposed trigger and grip for a smooth fast draw. This type holster is a Hollywood anachronism. Twirling one's revolvers is a trademark trick of gunslingers, and drawing and spinning the pistol from time to time, without intending or being expected to shoot, is a commonly portrayed habit or compulsion. Fast-draw artists can be distinguished from other movie cowboys because their guns will often be tied to their thigh. Long before holsters were steel-lined, they were soft and supple so they could be comfortably worn all day long. Tie-downs were used to keep the pistol from catching on the holster as it was drawn. Fact versus fiction, gunfights Most gunfights are portrayed in films or books as having two men square off, waiting for one to make the first move. This was rarely the case. Often, a gunfight was spur-of-the-moment, with one drawing his pistol, and the other reacting. Often it would develop into a shootout where both men bolted for cover.

Other times, one or both were drunk and missed several normally easy shots. Many times the shootout was little more than one taking advantage of the other's looking away at an opportune moment. Regardless of popular folklore, the men who held noteworthy reputations as a gunfighter were not anxious to match up against another gunman with the same reputation. On the contrary, in cases where two men held a similar reputation, both reputable gunmen would avoid confrontation with one another whenever possible. They rarely took undue risks, and usually weighed their options before confronting another well-known gunman. This respect for one another is why most famous gunfights were rarely two or more well-known gunmen matched up against one another, but rather one notable gunman against a lesser known opponent or opponents. Generally, two well-known gunmen coming into contact with one another would result in either the two keeping a distance but being social, or avoiding one another altogether. In cases where one well-known gunman was a lawman, and another was merely in town, the one that was visiting would avoid problems. He avoided confrontation with the gunman serving lawman. How famous gunfighters died is as varied as each man.

Many well-known gunfighters were so feared by the public because of their reputation that when they were killed, they died as a result of ambush rather than going down in a "blaze of glory". Others died secluded deaths either from old age or illness. Gunfighters King Fisher , John Wesley Hardin , Ben Thompson , Billy the Kid , and Wild Bill Hickok all died as a result of an ambush, killed by men who feared them because of their reputation. Gunmen Kid Curry , Jim Courtright , Dallas Stoudenmire and Dave Rudabaugh were killed in raging gun battles, much as portrayed in films of the era, and usually against more than one opponent. Bill Longley and Tom Horn were executed. Famed gunman Clay Allison died in a wagon accident. Gunmen Wyatt Earp , Doc Holliday , Commodore Perry Owens , and Luke Short all died of natural causes, living out their lives on reputation and avoiding conflict in secluded retirement. Living on reputation Most Old West men who were labelled as being "gunfighters" did not kill nearly as many men in gunfights as they were given credit for, if any at all.

They were often labelled as such due to one particular instance, which developed from rumours into them having been involved in many more events than they actually were. Often their reputation was as much "self-promotion" as anything else, such was the case of Bat Masterson . Wyatt Earp, for example, has been said to have been involved in more than one hundred gunfights in his lifetime. In reality, less than ten would be more accurate. His fame was mostly due to his involvement in the Gunfight at the OK Corral, and his Vendetta Ride afterward. Although history has since portrayed him as having been legendary and well known when that gunfight took place, he in fact was not well known until after that, and due to that. Doc Holliday, another figure whose fame mostly derived from his involvement in the events leading up to and after the Gunfight at the OK Corral, was known in fact to have killed only one man prior to that gunfight, therefore it was more his reputation than any actual deeds that led to his notoriety. Johnny Ringo , as supported by noted author Louis L'Amour , has no factual deeds to support the reputation he developed.

Of the men who are actually known for a fact to have been killed by him, all were unarmed, and he has no actual evidence to support his having been in even one gunfight. Yet because of the Earp - Clanton feud in Tombstone, Arizona , and his association with that, he is well remembered as a "gunfighter". There were others, however, whose lifestyle definitely lived up to the reputation they had. Jim Courtright, for example, did in fact kill several men, as did Dallas Stoudenmire, in gunfights both as lawmen and as civilians. Clay Allison and Ben Thompson also lived up to their reputations. At the same time, gunmen like Scott Cooley are all but unknown, when they actually led a life reflective of what most would consider a gunfighter to be. In other cases, certain gunfighters were possibly confused, over time, for being someone else with a similar name. The most well known of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, the Sundance Kid , was in reality only known to have been in one shootout during his lifetime, and no gunfights.

Some historians have since stated that it is possible that over time he was confused with another Wild Bunch member, Kid Curry , who was without a doubt the most dangerous member of the gang, having killed many lawmen and civilians during his lifetime before being killed himself. Hence, it is the Sundance Kid who is better known. Most famous gunfights of the Old West The image of a Wild West filled with countless gunfights was a myth generated primarily by dime-novel authors in the late 19th century. However, gunfights did occasionally occur. The most notable and well known of these took place in the states of Arizona , New Mexico , Kansas , Oklahoma , and Texas . They each varied in what led up to them. Some were simply the result of the heat of the moment, others were the result of long standing feuds , while others were between outlaws and lawmen. There were also various other reasons that resulted in gunfights. Some of these shootouts became famous, while others simply faded into history with only a few accounts of them left today.

Listed below are some of the more notable and remembered gunfights that did receive wide acclaim: Moab Shootout , May 26, 1900, Moab, Utah Gunfighter, outlaw, or lawman It is often difficult to separate lawmen of the Old West from outlaws of the Old West. In many cases, the term gunfighter was applied to constables. Despite idealisstic portrayals in television, movies, and even in the history books, very few of these lawmen/gunfighters could claim their law enforcement role as their only source of employment. Unlike contemporary peace officers, these lawmen generally pursued other occupations, often working as gamblers, business owners, or outlaws, as was the case with "Curly" Bill Brocius , who, while always referred to as an outlaw, served as a deputy sheriff under Sheriff Johnny Behan . Many shootouts involving lawmen were caused by disputes arising from these alternative occupations, rather than the lawman's attempts to enforce the law.

Tom Horn, historically referred to as an assassin , served both as a deputy sheriff and as a Pinkerton detective , a job for which he was quite well suited and in which he killed seventeen men in the line of duty, before going on to kill better than twenty two as a killer for hire. Ben Thompson, best known as a gunfighter and gambler, was a very successful chief of police in Austin, Texas . King Fisher had great success as a county sheriff in Texas. Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid both wore badges as lawmen at least once during their lifetime. "Big" Steve Long served as deputy marshal for Laramie, Wyoming , while the entire time committing murders and forced theft of land deeds. A town with a substantial violent crime rate would often turn to a known gunman as their town marshal, chief, or sheriff, in the hopes that the gunman could stem the violence and bring order. Typically, this move was successful.

These gunmen/lawmen would generally be very effective, and in time the violence would subside, usually after the gunman/lawman had been involved in several shooting incidents, eventually leading to a substantial and well earned fear that kept everyone in line.At times they were hired by cattlemen or other prominent figures to serve as henchmen during cattle wars. Although technically "sanctioned" by law enforcement officials, the gunmen were not always actually deputized. Sometimes, however, just to make things "official", they would go through the formality of deputizing the gunmen. Case in point, the service of the Jessie Evans Gang , and outlaw Jessie Evans himself, working for the "Murphy-Dolan" faction during the Lincoln County War . While they were technically working as lawmen, they were little more than hired guns. Usually, when a gunman was hired by a town as Town Marshal, they received the full support of the townspeople until order was restored. Once order was restored, however, the town would tactfully indicate it was time for a change to a more politically correct lawman who relied more on respect than fear. In others, the gunman would simply become bored as the times changed and move on.

A good example of both these scenarios was the 1882 decision by the El Paso, Texas , town council to dismiss Town Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire . Stoudenmire entered the council hall and dared them to try and take his guns or his job, at which point they immediately changed their mind, telling him he could keep his job. He resigned on his own a couple of days later. Another example was the dismissal of Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens in Holbrook, Arizona , after which the local county commission also withheld his last paycheck. Owens entered the county building and forced them to pay him at gun point, and he received no resistance.In the case of Marshal Jim Courtright, for example, he did "clean up the town" while serving as town marshal for Fort Worth, Texas . However, it was his habit of strong-arming local businesses in the area into paying him for protection that ultimately led to his fateful gunfight with gunman and saloon owner Luke Short, in which Courtright was killed.

List of famous gunfighters Burnham's sidearm: Remington 1875, .44-40 caliber There is historical dispute about the authenticity of the records of most of these men, and there is evidence that a select few stand out as masters. They all, however, had a reputation as dangerous gunfighters. In fiction the term gunslinger has anachronistically been tied to them. Since most served as a lawman at one time, they can not be easily separated into categories of lawman or outlaw.

Question: How was the American outlaw and gunfighter Harry Longabaugh better known?
Answer: 'SUNDANCE KID'