1867
c. November 6, 1908
AKA: Frank Boyd, Harry Place, “Enrique” Place
Bandit and Gunslinger
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh was best known as the Sundance Kid. He was a member of the Wild Bunch, a notorious band of robbers who roamed the Rocky Mountains in the 1890s robbing banks and trains. The Kid and his friend, Butch Cassidy (see entry in volume 3), eventually broke from the group and escaped detectives by moving to South America. Many believe they died in a final shootout with Bolivian soldiers in 1908.
Longabaugh was born in Pennsylvania in the spring of 1867. The youngest of five children in a Baptist family, he left home when he was fifteen years old to live with relatives in Colorado. Later, he drifted around the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, working as a broncobuster and horse-driver. He was arrested in 1887 and served eighteen months in jail for horse theft. The jail was in Sundance, Wyoming, and it became the source of his nickname, the Sundance Kid.
Known as an expert shot, The Kid began to rob banks and trains with various other bandits.
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