Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were two notorious robbers during the late 1800's and early 1900's. They have been rumored to be the most famous and successful bank robbers in history because of their long run with "The Wild Bunch" in the 1880's and 1890's. The one thing that probably makes them as famous and as legendary as they are, is the fact that no one knows whether or not they died when the history books say they did. It has been rumored that they were killed in Bolivia in 1909.
             Butch Cassidy was born as Robert Leroy Parker in 1866. His parents had decided that they would settle in Mormon country in Utah. He was described as very restless and had a very acquisitive nature to himself while he was growing up. Once he was a teenager, he met a cowboy rustler name Mike Cassidy. Cassidy, who later was the inspiration for his name, had taught him how to shoot, ride, and rope over the course of a few years to prepare him for his future. When Robert was old enough, he traveled to Telluride, Colorado with Cassidy. While he was there, Butch met the bank-robbing duo of Tom McCarty and Matt Warner. Butch seemed to fit in very well with the two of them and then later had taken part in numerous bank robberies in Denver and Telluride, and also a aborted train robbery in 1887.
             When he first started his life of crime, he went under the name of George Cassidy, he gathered a small reputation under this name before he adopted the name Butch from his profession at the time. Butch had been working as a butcher at a meat shop in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He liked the way the alias "Butch Cassidy" sounded so he replaced 'George' with it. This new name then stayed with him for the rest of his life. A few years later, Butch became part of an outlaw strong hold of BROWN's Hole, a rugged mountain camp at the Green River bordering Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. He met many new people t...