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Born into a Mormon family in Utah, Robert Leroy Parker grew up dirt poor and soon discovered stealing horses and cattle was a fact of life in a world where small ranchers were being squeezed by banks, railroads, and cattle barons. Sometimes you got caught, sometimes you got lucky. A charismatic and more than capable cowboy, he adopted the alias “Butch Cassidy,” and moved on to a new moneymaking endeavor: bank robbery. By all accounts, Butch was a smart and considerate thief, refusing to take anything from customers and insisting that no one be injured during his heists. His “Wild Bunch” gang specialized in clever getaways, stationing horses at various points along their escape route so they could outrun any posse. Eventually, Butch and his gang graduated to train robberies, which were more lucrative. He and his partner Harry Longabaugh (The Sundance Kid) then fled to South America, where they replicated the cycle of ranching, rustling, and robbery until they met their end in Bolivia.
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