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| Prison mugshot, 1894 |
April 13, 1866 - Beaver, Utah Territory - Robert LeRoy Parker is born
April(?) 1(?), 1879 - Circle Valley, S. of Circleville, Utah - In the Spring, Robert's father moves the family south onto 160 acres in the Circle Valley
August(?) 1(?), 1879 - Hay Springs, near Milford, Utah - Robert finds work at Pat Ryan's ranch in Hay Springs, near Milford. He journeys to a clothier's shop in another town but found it closed. He broke into the shop and stole a pair of jeans and some pie, leaving an IOU promising to pay on his next visit. The clothier pressed charges, but Cassidy was acquitted by a jury
December(?) 1(?), 1879 - Frisco, Utah - Robert's parents move to Frisco and start a small ranch. Robert begins working at the Jim Marshall ranch
February(?) 1(?), 1880 - Frisco - The small herd of cattle perish during the winter of 1879-1880, one of the worst in southern Utah history
January(?) 1(?), 1883 - Circle Valley, S. of Circleville, Utah - At Jim Marshall's ranch, Robert Parker meets a cowboy named Mike Cassidy, a man who would change is life. Cassidy, a survivor and hardened cowboy, makes Robert is protegé and begins telling him of the world beyond mormon lands. He offers Robert a saddle and a revolver and both practice their shooting together
June 1(?), 1884 - Circle Valley - Robert says goodbye to his mother and little brothers and moves to Telluride, Colorado, aged 18. While showing his intention to find a job in the mines at Telluride, he might have been hired by a known rustler named Cap Brown to drive about 20 head of horses through the Utah badlands over to Colorado, with final destination at Telluride =(START)
July(?) 1(?), 1884 - Telluride, Colorado - Robert Parker arrives in Telluride and is fascinated by all the saloons, the gambling and all the money circulating in town. He finds a job packing ore down the mountain from the mines to the mill by mule train. With his good salary, he begins frequenting the saloons
December(?) 1(?), 1884 - Wyoming | Nebraska - Spends the winter in Wyoming or Nebraska, when mining slowed down
April(?) 1(?), 1885 - Telluride, Colorado - Returns to Telluride in the Spring
August(?) 1(?), 1885 - Montrose, Colorado - After Robert refuses to sell his horse to his boss. He is accused by the boss of stealing it from him. Robert is thrown into prison in Montrose. They wire Robert's father in Circleville to inform him about this injustice. When he arrives, his mere presence as a respectable property owner makes all the difference and Robert is acquitted of any wrongdoing, because he couldn't have stolen his own horse. His father tries to persuade him to return home, but Robert declines, saying that when he saves enough money he would return home. Before saying goodbye, Robert gives his father some cash to give to his mother.
January(?) 1(?), 1886 - Miles City, Montana - Working as a ranch hand (he might have known Harry Longabaugh there)
November 16, 1886 - Miles City - Arctic wind blows in, lowering temperatures to twenty below, and six inches of snow
December 6(?), 1886 - Miles City - Second major blizzard
January 9, 1887 - Miles City - Third major blizzard. Temperatures plummet to as low as 68 degrees below zero
January 15, 1887 - Miles City - Temperatures in Eastern Montana reach 46 degrees below zero
January 28, 1887 - Miles City - Heavy snow falls uninterruptedly for 72 hours
February 25(?), 1887 - Miles City - The weather finally improves. As the snows melt, it is estimated that 90% of range stock in Montana and Wyoming had perished in the cold. Many human corpses are also found
June(?) 1(?), 1887 - Telluride, Colorado - Robert returns to Telluride. At a saloon he meets Matt Warner, an ex-horse thief who had killed another man in Utah over a girl, and owner of a racehorse. Robert and Warner race the horse at various events, dividing the winnings between them
January(?) 1(?), 1888(?) - Cortez, Colorado - Robert and Warner are hired as cowhands at the Spectator Ranch, owned by Harry Adsit
January(?) 1(?), 1889 - Cortez - Robert Parker and Warner inform Adsit that they were returning to Utah, but instead, they head to Tom McCarty's cabin in Cortez, Colorado
March 30, 1889 - Denver, Colorado - Robert Parker and Warner might have been involved in a robbery of First National Bank in Denver (although Warner later denied it in is memories). A well-dressed gentleman enters the bank with a vial containing a clear liquid that he claimed was nitroglycerin. The president of the bank hands over $21,000 to him, while an accomplice was waiting at the doorway
June 24, 1889 - Telluride, Colorado - Robert Parker, Warner and two of the McCarty brothers rob the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, stealing approximately $21,000.
July 1(?), 1889 - Robbers Roost, SE of Utah - They flee to the Robbers Roost, a remote hideout, in southeast Utah. It is the first time that Robert Parker is identified
October(?) 1(?), 1889 - Brown's Park, Wyoming - Finds work as ranch hand at the nearby Bassett Ranch in the Fall. He makes friends with 11-year-old Ann Bassett
January(?) 1(?), 1890 - Rock Springs, Wyoming - Robert Parker rides to Rock Springs. There he finds that the only available work was in the coal mines. While there, he bumps into a man named William Gottsche who ran a butcher shop and needed help. Robert takes the job and adopts the name of "Butch Cassidy" in honor of Mike Cassidy
May(?) 1(?), 1890 - Horse Creek, Wind River, Wyoming - Cassidy resigns his position at the butcher shop and goes to work as a cowhand for the EA Outfit, a 240-acre ranch on Horse Creek in the Wind River area of Wyoming. The owner, Eugene Amoretti, owned a bank in Lander aswell as 40,000 heads of cattle
July(?) 1(?), 1890 - Dubois, Wyoming - Cassidy and his friend Al Hainer purchase a ranch on the outskirts of Dubois, Wyoming
December 25, 1890 - Lander, Wyoming - Christmas dinner with the wife of future US Senator Will Simpson
January(?) 1(?), 1891 - Horse Creek, Wind River, Wyoming - Spends the year of 1891 at his ranch
August 1(?), 1891 - Horse Creek - Suspicious of Butch and Al's lifestyle. The ranchers set a trap for them. Butch and Al buy 3 horses at Mail Camp from Joseph "Billy" Nutcher, a man from Lander known to ride with rustlers. When informed that the authorities were gathering evidence against them and would probably move to arrest them, both decide to leave everything behind
August 5(?), 1891 - Auburn, Lincoln County, Wyoming - Butch and Al hole up at a remote ranch near the town of Auburn in Lincoln County, Wyoming
April 11, 1892 - Auburn - Law enforcement officers reach the ranch hideout of Butch Cassidy and Al Hainer and arrest them. They are taken to Lander jail
July 15, 1892 - Lander, Wyoming - A complaint charges Butch and Al Hainer with two counts of grand larceny for stealing a horse valued at 40 dollars from the Grey Bull Cattle Company, as well as another horse valued at 50 dollars from Richard Ashworth. Bail was set at $400, but neither had the cash and remained in the Fremont County jail for 2 months, until local citizens arranged bail
September(?) 1(?), 1892(?) - San Antonio, Texas - Butch travels to San Antonio, Texas. He visits Fannie Porter's house of ill repute, where he happened upon a girl said to be only 16 years old. Believing that she was too young to be working in such a place, Butch decides to take her along with him
February 20, 1893 - On his way back to Utah - Bankruptcy of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, rattles investors and the public
May(?) 1(?), 1893(?) - Wellington, Utah - Butch travels to Wellington, Utah, with the girl and place her in the care of a devout Mormon family. (Some say the girl was Etta Place)
May 5, 1893 - While in Wellington, Utah(?) - "Industrial Black Friday" - Railroad and industrial stocks plummet and several major companies and banks go bankrupt. - It sparkles the "Panic of 1893"
June 20, 1893 - Lander, Wyoming - Butch rides into Lander to stand judgement before a jury. He is acquitted
December(?) 1(?), 1893 - Billings | Miles City, Montana - Butch goes to Billings or Miles City for the winter. During that time, he probably had a disagreement with Al Hainer, whom he suspected of having made a deal on his own with the authorities
January 6, 1894 - Horse Creek, Wind River, Wyoming - Butch and Al Hainer mortgage their Horse Creek property to baker Eugene Amoretti Jr to pay for their defense
June 1(?), 1894 - Lander, Wyoming - The juri declares Cassidy guilty of stealing horses and possibly for running a protection racket among the local ranchers there. He is arrested at Lander and sentenced to two years in prison
July 15, 1894 - Laramie, Wyoming - Butch Cassidy is transported by wagon to Rawlins, and from there by train to the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Laramie
January 19, 1896 - Laramie - Cassidy is released from prison after serving 18 months
February(?) 1(?), 1896 - Brown's Park, Wyoming - Cassidy rides directly to the outlaw hideout of Brown's Park where he joins his friend Matt Warner and runs into another old acquaintance - Ellsworth "Elzy" Lay, who moves in with Butch
May 1(?), 1896 - While at Brown's Park, Wyoming - Warner is involved in a gunfight at Vernal. He and two others shoot two men to death. They are arrested and charged with murder. Cassidy tells his friend not to worry, because he would find a way to pay for the services of the best lawyer possible, Douglas A. Preston. His plan is to tob a bank
August 13, 1896 - Montpelier, Idaho - Cassidy, Lay, Logan, and Bob Meeks rob the bank at Montpelier, Idaho, escaping with approximately $7,000. Cassidy recruits Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, also known as "The Sundance Kid", into the gang soon after
August(?) 25(?), 1896 - N. of Vernal, Utah - Cassidy and Elzy ride to a cabin north of Vernal, Utah, joining Butch's companion Ann Bassett. Most of the money stolen from the bank is turned over to Douglas Preston to pay for the defense of Matt Warner on murder charges
September 8, 1896 - While N. of Vernal, Utah - Trial of Matt Warner, who is convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 5 years in prison
November(?) 1(?), 1896 - Brown's Park, Wyoming - Butch is informed that lawmen were coming to arrest them. Both men and their companions (*) head for Brown's Park, where Ann Bassett's family could provide refuge. (*) Elzy had married his longtime girlfriend Maude Davis in the Fall
November 26, 1896 - Brown's Park - Thanksgiving celebration at the Bassett ranch, among the 35 visitors was Sundance Kid
January(?) 1(?), 1897 - Robbers Roost, SE of Utah - Cassidy, Ann Bassett, Elzy and Maude head to Robbers Roost in early 1897 when informed that the law was planning to arrest them. The four hid there until early April
April 1(?), 1897 - Robbers Roost - Lay and Cassidy sent the women home so that the men could plan their next robbery
April 22, 1897 - Castle Gate, Utah - They ambushed a small group of men carrying the payroll of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company in the mining town of Castle Gate, Utah, stealing a sack containing $7,000 in gold with which they fled back to the Robbers Roost
May(?) 1(?), 1898 - near Steamboat Springs, Colorado - In the Spring, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Elzy Lay, the two Logan brothers and other desperadoes assemble near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, to discuss the prospects of forming a volunteer unit and offering their services to the US Army
June(?) 1(?), 1898 - near Alma, New Mexico - Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Elzy Lay drift south and find work at the WS Ranch, near Alma, New Mexico
June 2, 1899 - near Wilcox, Wyoming - The gang robs a Union Pacific Overland Flyer passenger train near Wilcox, Wyoming. Sundance Kid, George Currie, Harvey and Lonnie Logan, Ben Kilpatrick and Will "News" Carver execute the robbery, planned by Butch Cassidy, and leave with between $30,000 and $50,000. The robbery earns the Wild Bunch Gang a great deal of notoriety and resulted in a massive manhunt
June 25, 1899 - While in Brown's Park, Wyoming(?) - The mugshot taken of Butch when he had arrived at the Wyoming State Penitentiary is published in the "New York Herald" with an article about the Hole in the Wall Gang
July 11, 1899 - While in Brown's Park(?) - Elzy Lay, Sam Ketchum, Harvey Logan and Will "News" Carver" are involved in a Colorado and Southern Railroad train robbery near Folsom, New Mexico, which Cassidy might have planned. During a firefight, Elzy Lay kills Sheriff Farr and is himself wounded. Elzy and Ketchum are arrested
October 2, 1899 - While in Brown's Park(?) - Elzy Lay stands trial for the murder of Sheriff Farr and is sentenced to life in prison
February 28, 1900 - While in Brown's Park(?) - Lawmen attempt to arrest Lonny Logan at his aunt's home. Lonny is killed in the shootout that follows, and his cousin Bob Lee is arrested for rustling and send to prison in Wyoming
March 28, 1900 - While in Brown's Park(?) - George Curry and News Carver are pursued by a posse from St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona after using currency which they had stolen in the Wilcox train robbery. The posse engages them in a shootout, during which Deputies Andrew Gibbons and Frank LeSueur are killed, while Carver and Curry escape
April 17, 1900 - While in Brown's Park(?) - George Curry is killed in a shootout with Grand County, Utah Sheriff John Tyler and Deputy Sam Jenkins
May 26, 1900 - While in Brown's Park(?) - Kid Curry rides into Moab, Utah and kills both Tyler and Jenkins in another shootout in retaliation for the deaths of George and Lonny
August 29, 1900 - near Tipton, Wyoming - Cassidy, Sundance, Harvey Logan and an unidentified man - Ben Kilpatrick or Bill Cruzan - rob Union Pacific train No. 3 near Tipton, Wyoming, breaking Cassidy's earlier promise to the governor of Wyoming and ending any chance for amnesty
September 19, 1900 - Winnemucca, Nevada - Cassidy, Sundance and Will "News" Carver are seen enjoying a shot of whiskey at a saloon in Winnemuca. At noon, they rob the First National Bank, taking $32,640 with them
November 1(?), 1900 - Fort Worth, Texas - Butch, Sundance, Harvey Logan, Will Carver and Ben Kilpatrick take up residence in the Maddox Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas
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| "Forth Worth Five" (Sundance Kid on the left, Butch Cassidy on the right) |
December 1, 1900 - Fort Worth - The outlaws attend Will Carver's marriage with Callie May Hunt
January 1, 1900 - Horse Creek, Wind River, Wyoming - With the improvements in technology and the Pinkerton Detective Agency closing in on them, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid decide to depart for Argentina. First, Butch heads for Wyoming to dispose of the ranch he and Al Hainer had owned on Horse Creek
February 1, 1901 - New York City - Sundance and Etta Place arrive in New York City by train. They are joined at Mrs.Catherine Taylor's boardinghouse by Etta's "brother" James Ryan (Butch Cassidy)
February 10, 1901 - New York City - Snowstorm
February 13, 1901 - New York City - Thousands of New Yorkers and tourists gather at the Battery to witness a spectacle of nature’s fury. A warm front upstate had caused gigantic blocks of ice to float down the Hudson River to the harbor. When these massive chunks rounded the Battery, they encountered huge blocks of ice flowing from the East River. The two ice floes converged, trapping as many as one hundred vessels of various sizes, from tugboats to ocean liners.
February 20, 1901 - Pier 32, New York City - They book passage on the british passenger/cargo steamer "SS Herminius" to Buenos Aires, Argentina
February 21, 1901 - Pier 32, New York City - They depart for Buenos Aires, Argentina aboard the "SS Herminius"
March 23, 1901 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Etta Place arrive in the port of Buenos Aires
April(?) 1(?), 1901 - Cholila, Chubut, Argentina (150km S. of Bariloche) - Cassidy, Sundance and Etta Place settle at Cholila, a place that reminds them of Montana, with grasslands, lakes and snow-covered mountains
June 1(?), 1901 - Near Cholila, Argentina - Butch and Sundance purchase 16 colts for $855
July 3, 1901 - While in Cholila, Argentina - Kid Curry and a group of men rob a Great Northern train near Wagner, Montana, stealing more than $60,000 in cash (equivalent to $1,840,000 in 2019). The gang splits up, but a posse led by Sheriff Elijah Briant catches up with "News" Carver and kills him
October 1(?), 1901 - Rawson, Chubut, Argentina - Butch and Sundance register their brands at Rawson, capital of Chubut
November 5, 1901 - While in Cholila, Argentina - Ben Kilpatrick is captured in St. Louis, Missouri at Josie Blakey's resort on Chestnut Street. In his pocket, they find a key to a room at The Laclede Hotel
November 6, 1901 - While in Cholila - The next morning, authorities find Laura Bullion in the lobby, checking out with her luggage. In her valise was $8,500 in unsigned banknotes from the Great Northern robbery
December 13, 1901 - While in Cholila - Curry kills Knoxville policemen William Dinwiddle and Robert Saylor in another shoot out, then escapes
March 3, 1902 - While in Cholila - Etta Place and Sundance Kid depart for New York aboard the "SS Soldier Prince". He was suffering from his recurring illness or injury and decided to seek medical attention
April 2, 1902 - Cholila, Chubut, Argentina - Butch files the necessary documents to petition the Registry of the Colonial Land Department in Buenos Aires for the purchase of four leagues - over 25,000 acres - of governmental land in the territory of Chubut, in the names of James Ryan and Harry A. Place.
April 3, 1902 - While in Cholila - Etta Place and Sundance Kid arrive in New York City
July 10, 1902 - While in Cholila - Etta Place and Sundance Kid board the freighter "Honorius" to Buenos Aires
August 9, 1902 - While in Cholila - Etta Place and Sundance Kid arrive in Buenos Aires and check in Hotel Europa
August 10, 1902 - Cholila, Argentina - Letter to Mathilda Davis, the mother of Maude Davis and mother-in-law of Elzy Lay, revealing much about his life in Patagonia
August 13, 1902 - While in Cholila - Etta Place and Sundance Kid board the steamer "SS Chubut" to return to their ranch
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| Sundance Kid, Etta Place and Butch Cassidy at Cholila |
April 19, 1905 - Cholila, Argentina - Butch writes to Richard Clarke, from whom he ordered supplies, that the trio was leaving Cholila and that their merchandise should be delivered to Daniel Gibbon, a neighbor and friend
May 1, 1905 - Cholila, Argentina - Cassidy and Sundance Kid sell the Cholila ranch and leave, fearing that law enforcement had located them. The Pinkerton Agency had known their location for some time, but the snow and the hard winter of Patagonia had prevented their agent Frank Dimaio from making an arrest. Governor Julio Lezana issued an arrest warrant, but Sheriff Eduardo Humphreys, a Welsh-Argentine who was friendly with Cassidy and enamored of Place, tips them off. Before leaving, Butch Cassidy writes a letter to their friend and neighbor John C.Perry, a fellow immigrant and former sheriff in Crockett County, Texas
May 9, 1905 - San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina - The trio then flees north to San Carlos de Bariloche, where they embark on the steamer "Condor" across Nahuel Huapí Lake and into Chile
June 28, 1905 - Valparaíso, Chile - Butch, Sundance and Etta Place arrive in Valparaíso, Chile
December 1(?), 1905 - Villa Mercedes, 640km W. of Buenos Aires, Argentina - Butch, Sundance and Etta reunite in the town of Villa Mercedes, San Luis, Argentina
December 19, 1905 - Villa Mercedes - Cassidy, Sundance, Place, and an unknown male associate robbed the Banco de la Nación Argentina branch in Villa Mercedes, 400 miles (640 km) west of Buenos Aires, taking 14,000 pesos (about $90,000). The outlaws flee and exchange fire with their pursuers, until one of them is wounded. They pause to take care of this person, then continues to a relay point with fresh horses and supplies
January(?) 1(?), 1906 - Antofagasta, Chile - The trio crosses the Salado River on a raft and heads for the Port City of Antofagasta, Chile. Etta Place completely disappears from records from this point. Some historians believe she decided she had enough of life on the run and returned to the US, but others believe that Etta was the one that was wounded after the Villa Mercedes robbery. If that's the case, it is probable that Etta died of blood loss after crossing to Chile
January 10, 1906 - While in Antofagasta, Chile - Three North American men were arrested in Neuquén Territory—between Villa Mercedes and Cholila, Chubut province—for the robbery of the bank in Villa Mercedes.
January 13, 1906 - While in Antofagasta, Chile - The authorities realize they had the wrong men and they are released from custody
May(?) 1(?), 1906 - Tres Cruces, 70 miles SE of La Paz, Bolivia - Using the alias "Santiago Maxwell", Butch Cassidy is hired by Clemet Rolla Glass to buy and handle livestock that would haul supplies for the Concordia Tin Mines at Tres Cruces, Bolivia
September 23, 1906 - While in Bolivia - In the US, the headline of the "New York Herald" is "Yankee desperadoes hold up the Argentine Republic". The article presents a largely fictional account of the Villa Mercedes bank robbery, falsely accusing Butch and Sundance, among other things, of killing the bank manager, which never happened. The article also says that Harvey Logan participated in that robbery - That would be impossible because he was killed on June 7, 1904
November 1(?), 1907 - Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia - The two take a leave of absence from the Concordia Mine and travel to Santa Cruz, a frontier town in Bolivia's eastern savannah, still wanting to settle down as respectable ranchers
August 1(?), 1908 - near Esmoraca, Bolivia - By August, Butch and Sundance - using the aliases of George Lowe and Frank Smith - are working or were permitted to stay at the camp of a gold ore dredging operation near Esmoraca
November 3, 1908 - San Vicente, Southern Bolivia - A courier was carrying the payroll for the Aramayo Franke and Cia Silver Mine on November 3, 1908, near the small mining town of San Vicente in southern Bolivia, when he is attacked by two masked American bandits believed to be Cassidy and Sundance Kid
November 6, 1908 - San Vicente - Witnesses see them three days later in San Vicente, where they lodge in a small boarding house owned by miner Bonifacio Casasola. Casasola became suspicious of them because they had a mule from the Aramayo Mine, identifiable from the company's brand. He notifies a nearby telegraph officer, who notifies the Abaroa cavalry regiment stationed nearby. The unit dispatches three soldiers under the command of Captain Justo Concha, and they notifiy the local authorities
November 7, 1908 - San Vicente, Southern Bolivia - A bolivian soldier approaches the hideout and his shot in the neck by Cassidy. A brief gunfire ensues with both outlaws trapped inside by many armed villagers and a few soldiers. Both of them wounded in the arm (Sundance was shot 3 times in the arm), they decide to end their adventures right there instead of spending the rest of their lives in a bolivian prison. Two shots are heard inside the house: Butch Cassidy shoots Sundance, aged 40/41, between his eyes and then turns his gun to his own forehead, killing himself, aged 42 =(END)
Most of this is Fiction. Butch Cassidy and Sundance were not in South America when the Shootout took place November 7,1908. They had left after February 16,1908. Sundance was in San Francisco and Butch was in Alaska.
ReplyDeleteButch didn’t do Castle Gate, Wilcox, Tipton and Winnimmucca. There was no Outlaw Thanksgiving in 1896 in Brown’s Park. Butch and Elza Lay was at the secret Hideout below Robbers Roost. Ann Bassett was not at the Roost. Butch was at Fort Worth one time. Etta was not from there.Butch didn’t put any girl in a home in Wellington, Utah. Butch was never a leader of a gang. There never was a Wild Bunch until 1902 long after the gang had broke up.
Thanks for those corrections. Could you suggest dates and locations (and references if possible) so that I correct this post? I'll put your name on the thankslist (frontpage)
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