- This article is about the gang. For the 1969 movie, see The Wild Bunch.
Wild Bunch, a gang in the American Wild West, led by Butch Cassidy, included Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick , William Carver , Laura Bullion , Elza Lay , George Curry, Harvey Logan , and Bob Meeks . The Wild Bunch tried to abstain from killing people and Cassidy boasted of having never killed a man.
At 1:00 a.m on June 2, 1899, Cassidy, Curry, Logan and Lay took part in the highly successful Union Pacific train holdup at Wilcox, Wyoming , stealing $30,000. Afterwards, the gang fled to New Mexico. The men were wearing masks made from white napkins possibly stolen from a Harvey House Restaurant.
On August 29th, 1900, Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Logan and two unidentified gang members, held up another Union Pacific train at Tipton, Wyoming . Less than a month later, on September 19, 1900, they raided the First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nevada, stealing $32,640.
In 1901, Cassidy along with the Sundance Kid and Etta Place relocate to South America. In 1908 Butch and Sundance may have been killed in a shootout with Bolivian cavalry. But there is evidence they both returned to the United States, with the Sundance Kid dying in 1936.
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"Sundance Kid" Henry Long
