Sundance Kid
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (* 1867 in Mont Clare , Pennsylvania , † 1908 ? In Bolivia ?) Was an American outlaw , known as The Sundance Kid , named after the town of Sundance in the US state of Wyoming .
Life
His criminal career began with horse theft in Sundance, Wyoming, for which he was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 1887. In 1892 he robbed a train with Harry Bass and Bill Madden near Malta , Montana .
Together with Butch Cassidy he led a gang from 1896, which soon became known as The Wild Bunch ("The wild bunch"). Along with other gangs, The Wild Bunch had a shelter at Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in northern Wyoming . The loose association of outlaws was called hole-in-the-wall gang after the hiding place .
After a dozen raids, he left for Argentina in 1901 with his girlfriend Etta Place and Cassidy to lead a quiet life there. Etta returned to the United States in 1905, and the two men began a new iteration of their old criminal careers, building a reputation in South America similar to that in the United States.
Bolivian troops are said to have surrounded both of them in San Vicente in 1908 . According to unconfirmed sources, he and Butch allegedly escaped, as is the version circulated in some travel guides that they were buried in the local cemetery. A plaque in the village reminds of the unproven bloody end of the two bandits. In 1992 the bones of "American desperados" were exhumed in that village. However, subsequent genetic testing in early 1993 revealed that the recovered remains were not Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. Some contemporaries had previously claimed to have seen the two of them after the military action. There were also rumors that the two injured survived and spent the rest of their lives under false names in Uruguay or the United States. Butch Cassidy's sister Lula Parker Betenson even claimed he had returned and continued to live in the United States. Finally, there were rumors and records (an unconfirmed death certificate) that the Sundance Kid had returned to his girlfriend Etta, married her and lived under a different name until November 21, 1936.
The duo was portrayed in a well-known 1969 film: Two Bandits, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford . Redford named the Sundance Film Festival in 1981 after the role he played in the film. Newman founded Hole in the Wall Camp, a summer camp for children with leukemia in 1988, named after the gang whose prominent members were the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.
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SURNAME | Sundance Kid |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Longabaugh, Harry Alonzo (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American wild west outlaw |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1867 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pennsylvania |
DATE OF DEATH | around 1908 |
Place of death | unsure: Bolivia |