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Harry Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid, 1901.

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy’sWild Bunch. During his wild days in the Old West, he also went by the names of Frank Smith, H.A. Brown, Harry A. Place, and Harry Long.

Longabaugh was born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, in 1867, the youngest of five children of Josiah and Annie G. Place Longabaugh. When he was only 15 years old, he headed west with a cousin. By the time he was 20, he had stolen a gun, a saddle, and a horse from a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming, only to be almost immediately captured. He was convicted and spent 18 months in jail, when he took on the nickname of the Sundance Kid.

Hole in the Wall Cabin at Old Town, Cody, Wyoming by Kathy Alexander

After his release, he worked as a cowboy before being implicated in an 1892 train robbery, and by 1897, he had hooked up with Harvey Logan, a member of the Wild Bunch. The two then robbed a bank at Belle Fourche, South Dakota, on June 27th. Both men were captured but managed to escape from a Deadwood jail

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Sundance Kid

(1867-1908)

Who Was Sundance Kid?

American criminal Sundance Kid was originally named Harry Longabaugh. At age 15, he headed west and received his nickname when was arrested for stealing a horse in Sundance, Wyoming. After a couple of years in jail, Sundance Kid resumed a career in crime, robbing trains and banks. Named the Wild Bunch, he and his conspirators went on the longest crime spree in the history of the American West. Sundance Kid eventually fled to South America where he continued his life of crime. Historians disagree on his death with some citing a shootout in Bolivia on November 3, 1908 while others suggest he returned to the U.S. under the name William Long and lived there until 1936.

Early Years

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh was born in 1867 in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania. He was considered the fastest gunslinger in the Wild Bunch, a well-known gang of robbers and cattle rustlers that roamed the American West during the 1880s and 1890s.

Longabaugh was just 15 when he left home for good. He took his nickname from the Wyoming town of Sundance, where he w

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – two names that roll off the tongue like peanut butter and jelly. Two people who are inexorably linked together to the point where one can seldom mention one without also bringing up the other. Sure, Butch Cassidy was the more famous one, but the Sundance Kid, or Harry Longabaugh, to give him his real name, was never far behind – the Batman and Robin of the Wild West, if Batman and Robin turned to a life of crime.

But they weren’t always attached at the hip. In fact, as you will find out, Cassidy wasn’t even Sundance’s most frequent partner-in-crime. Harry Longabaugh had a whole life before joining up with the Wild Bunch and becoming a sidekick to the Old West’s most infamous outlaw.

Early Years

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh was born in the spring of 1867 in the village of Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, the youngest of five children of Josiah Longabaugh and Annie Place.

Located on the bank of the Schuylkill River, Mont Clare was a boatman’s community where most of the workers had various jobs along the canal, mainly used to ship coal fr