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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Robert LeRoy Parker |
| Alt Name |
Butch Cassidy |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
13 Apr 1866 |
Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States |
| Other? |
Abt 1884 |
reportedly left home for good |
| Occupation[4] |
Bet 1884 and 1889 |
Cattle rustler? |
| Other[4] |
Jun 1889 |
Fell in with Tom McCarty, Bert Madden, & Matt Warner -- the MacCarty Gang |
| Other[4] |
24 Jun 1889 |
Telluride, San Miguel, Colorado, United StatesW/McCarty gang, pulled $21,000 bank robbery |
| Death[4] |
6 Nov 1908 |
Atocha, Potosí, BoliviaSan Vicente |
| Alt Death[3] |
1937 |
United StatesNorthwest |
| Reference Number? |
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Q313574? |
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West.
Parker engaged in criminal activity for more than a decade at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, but the pressures of being pursued by law enforcement, notably the Pinkerton detective agency, forced him to flee the country. He fled with his accomplice Harry Longabaugh, known as the "Sundance Kid", and Longabaugh's girlfriend Etta Place. The trio traveled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh are believed to have been killed in a shootout with the Bolivian Army in November 1908; the exact circumstances of their fate continue to be disputed.
Parker's life and death have been extensively dramatized in film, television, and literature, and he remains one of the most well-known icons of the "Wild West" mythos in modern times.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beaver, Utah, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 11B. - Givens, George W. 500 More Little-Known Facts in Mormon History. (Cedar Fort, Inc, Aug 2004)
pg 130, 2002.
" A Wayward Saint
Twenty years after arriving in Utah as a handcart pioneer, Robert Parker stood in a priesthood circle in the log church in Beaver, Utah, to give his first grandchild the name of Robert LeRoy parker and a blassing. Few in that Mormon chapel in 1866 could imagine the time would come when that baby boy would volunterily give up that name. His younger brothers ans a sister would proudly bear the name Parker in Mormon history. The sister, Lulu Parker Betenson, would even become a Utah Legislator, but the baby Robert would cast off the name to become one of the West's most famous outlaws, Butch Cassidy. There is some irony in the fact that his birth date has generally been listed as April 6, considered by Latter-day revelation as the date of the birth of Christ. Family records, however, give the birth date as a week later -- on Friday the Thirteenth."
- ↑ Betenson, Lula Parker, and Dora Flack. Butch Cassidy, my brother. (Penguin Books, 30 Jul 1976)
30 Jul 1976.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Butch Cassidy, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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