Life of Butch Cassidy essays

Life of Butch Cassidy essays Born Robert Leroy Parker in Beaver, Utah, on Apr. 13, 1866, Cassidy was the oldest of 13 children and had no formal education. Cassidy became a cowboy while still in his teens when he met Mike Cassidy, adopting Cassidy's name after he joined him in rustling cattle in Utah and Colorado. He joined a gang every one later called the wild bunch who over they years would take over $15,000,00 from banks, trains and other robberies. After a robbery he tried to make an honest living by being a ranch hand but later met up with some old friends named Bill and Tom McCarty and tried to rob a train but after the guard refused to open the safe they left the train alone and left with no money. Later he met up with them again and robbed the Denver First National Bank of over $20,000 Tom McCarty approached the bank president that day and stated: "Excuse me, sir, but I just overheard a plot to rob this bank." The bank president nervously asked: "Lord! How did you learn of this plot? McCarty said, I planed it raising his gun "Put up your hands." Being only captured once and let out on Jan 19,1896 he went back to his hide out in a bank robbery butch's friends Bill McCarty and his brother Fred McCarty had been shot to pieces while trying to rob the bank in Delta, ColoOn the night of November 6, 1908, Butch and Sundance arrived in the town of San Vicente. They were looking for a place to stay and were directed to the home of Bonifacio Casaola. The room that Butch and Sundance were given had one doorway that opened up into a walled patio, no windows and no back door. After guiding the two outlaws, the local man who directed Butch and Sundance to Casaola's home, alerted four local soldiers that two strangers were in town. The soldiers gathered their rifles and ammunition and headed for the house. The soldiers entered the patio at the same time Butch was coming out of the doorway. Butch drew his gun and fired, hitting one o...