(Harry Longabaugh)

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.

The Longabaugh kid

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...