"on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. It has approximately 400,000 visitors annually. After his release from the town jail in 1888, Harry Longabaugh, an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the American Old West, acquired the moniker, ""the Sundance Kid"". His nickname entered the popular culture with release of the 1969 movie ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"", which won several Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay. Robert Redford, who portrayed Longabaugh in the movie, later named his Sundance Ski Resort near Provo, Utah, and the Sundance Film Festival after this character. The town of"
"in 1892 and a bank robbery in 1897 with five other men. He became associated with a group known as the Wild Bunch, which included his famous partner Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy. Although Longabaugh was reportedly fast with a gun and was often referred to as a gunfighter, he is not known to have killed anyone prior to a later shootout in Bolivia, in which he and Parker were alleged to have been killed. He became better known than another outlaw member of the gang dubbed ""Kid"", Kid Curry (real name Harvey Logan), who killed numerous"
"Dave Rudabaugh David Rudabaugh (July 14, 1854February 18, 1886), was a cowboy, outlaw, and gunfighter in the American Old West. Modern writers often refer to him as ""Dirty Dave"" because of his alleged aversion to water, though no evidence has emerged to show that he was ever referred to as such in his own lifetime. Rudabaugh was born in Fulton County, Illinois. His father was killed in the Civil War when Dave was a boy. The family moved to Ohio and later Kansas. The outlaw career of Dave Rudabaugh began in earnest in Arkansas in the early 1870s. He was"
"stole a gun, horse and saddle from a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming. While attempting to flee, he was captured by authorities and was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail by Judge William L. Maginnis. During this jail time, he adopted the nickname of the Sundance Kid. After his release, he went back to working as a ranch hand, and in 1891, as a 25-year-old, he worked at the Bar U Ranch in what is today Alberta, Canada, which was one of the largest commercial ranches of the time. Longabaugh was suspected of taking part in a train robbery"
"Harry Horowitz Harry Horowitz ( – April 13, 1914), also known as ""Gyp the Blood"", was an American underworld figure and a leader of the Lenox Avenue Gang in New York City. Harry Horowitz was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan , to Orthodox Jewish parents. He was a slight figure, standing just under and weighing . but extraordinarily strong. He bragged that to win a $2 bet, he broke a man's back in three places. He served prison terms for burglary and robbery. New York City Judge Franklin C. Hoyt later recalled: On July 16, 1912, he"
"on the Dillinger's wings."" Harry Horowitz Harry Horowitz ( – April 13, 1914), also known as ""Gyp the Blood"", was an American underworld figure and a leader of the Lenox Avenue Gang in New York City. Harry Horowitz was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan , to Orthodox Jewish parents. He was a slight figure, standing just under and weighing . but extraordinarily strong. He bragged that to win a $2 bet, he broke a man's back in three places. He served prison terms for burglary and robbery. New York City Judge Franklin C. Hoyt later recalled: On"
"to Mexico where he worked as both a cowboy and a rustler. On February 18, 1886, Rudabaugh was involved in a gunfight with locals in Parral, Chihuahua. The fight began over a card game. He drew his pistol and killed two men and wounded another. He left the saloon unharmed, but unable to find his horse, he re-entered a few moments later, which turned out to be a fatal mistake. He was shot several times from the shadows, and then was decapitated with a machete and his head placed on a pole. Dave Rudabaugh was the only outlaw said to"
"Bill Longley (gunfighter) William Preston Longley (October 6, 1851 – October 11, 1878), also known as Wild Bill Longley, was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter noted for his ruthless nature, speed with a gun, quick temper, and unpredictable demeanor. He is considered to have been one of the deadliest gunfighters in the Old West. Bill Longley was born on Mill Creek in Austin County, Texas, the sixth of ten children of Campbell and Sarah Longley. His family moved when he was two years old and he was raised on a farm near Old Evergreen, Texas, in present-day Lincoln,"
"girlfriend Etta Place, and Parker to leave the United States. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were reportedly killed in a shootout in November 1908. Longabaugh was born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania in 1867, the son of Pennsylvania natives Josiah and Annie G. (née Place) Longabaugh. He was the youngest of five children (his older siblings were Ellwood, Samanna, Emma and Harvey). Longabaugh was of mostly English and German ancestry and was also part Welsh. At age 15, he traveled westward in a covered wagon with his cousin George. In 1887, Longabaugh"
"Parks Canada, which bought the property in 1991 and opened it to the public in 1995. A number of prominent personalities were associated with the Bar U. In 1891 the notoriously infamous Harry Longabaugh was a horse breaker at the Bar U, later becoming the outlaw and Wild West gun fighter ""the Sundance Kid"". Edward, Prince of Wales visited the Bar U in 1919 and was so taken with it that he bought a neighboring ranch, which he named the EP. Charles M. Russell painted a series of paintings at the Bar U. Ranch cowboy Everett Johnson was reportedly studied"
"large gold nugget and a collection of revolvers. Hank Vaughan Henry Clay Vaughan aka Hank Vaughan (April 27, 1849 – 1893) was born to Alexander and Elizabeth Vaughan in the Willamette Valley of Oregon Territory. Vaughn became an infamous outlaw and gunfighter of the American West. At the age of 18, after having rustled Cayuse horses from the Umatilla with Dan Burns, Vaughan and Burns were tracked by Umatilla County Sheriff Frank Maddock and Deputy O. John Hart to their camp at Burnt Creek. On May 1, 1865, the lawmen engaged the two outlaws in a gunbattle. Deputy Hart and"
"farm owned by Luther Rubeck. A massive manhunt of over 1,000 federal, state and local law officers, National Guardsmen, and civilian volunteers (the largest manhunt conducted in United States history up to that time) scoured the hills surrounding Shade Gap for any sign of Peggy Ann and her abductor. At the Rubeck farm, searchers converged on Hollenbaugh and Peggy Ann. Hollenbaugh opened fire with a pistol, ducked behind a corncrib, and ran across the road to the porch of a farmhouse. Two shots rang out simultaneously—one fired by Larry Rubeck (age 15) from the farmhouse, the other by a state"
"Cornelius Donahue Cornelius Donahue alias ""Lame Johnny"" (c.1850 in Philadelphia – 1878), was an American cattle rustler, horse thief and general Wild West outlaw from the Black Hills of South Dakota. His gang's most notorious robbery was probably $3,500 in currency, $500 in diamonds, hundreds of dollars' worth of jewelry and 700 pounds of gold dust, nuggets and bullion from a special treasure coach called the ""Monitor"" belonging to the Homestake Mine in October 1878. Doug Engebretson in his book ""Empty saddles, forgotten names: Outlaws of the Black Hills and Wyoming"" has the following to say on the demise of"
"recruited Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, also known as ""The Sundance Kid"", a native of Pennsylvania, into the Wild Bunch. In early 1897, Cassidy was joined at Robbers Roost by Ann Bassett, Elzy Lay, and Lay's girlfriend Maude Davis. The four hid there until early April, when Lay and Cassidy sent the women home so that the men could plan their next robbery. On April 22, 1897, in the mining town of Castle Gate, Utah, Cassidy and Lay ambushed a small group of men carrying the payroll of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company, stealing a sack containing $7,000 in gold, with which"
"part of a band of outlaws who robbed and participated in cattle rustling along with Milton Yarberry and Mysterious Dave Mather. The three were suspected in the death of a rancher and fled the state. By some accounts all three went to Decatur, Texas, but other accounts have Rudabaugh heading to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he became a stagecoach robber. Sometime around 1876, Rudabaugh joined Mike Roarke and Dan Dement to form the outlaw band known as the ""Trio."" There is a disputed story from around this time that Rudabaugh taught Doc Holliday to use a pistol"
"Tom Longboat Thomas Charles Longboat (June 4, 1887 – January 9, 1949), whose Iroquois name was Cogwagee, was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, and for much of his career the dominant long-distance runner of the time. He was known as the ""bulldog of Britannia"", and was a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. When Longboat was a child, a Mohawk (Kanien'kehá:ka) resident of the reserve, Bill Davis, who in 1901 finished second in the Boston Marathon, interested him in running races. He began racing in 1905, finishing second"
"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. It is generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the American Wild West. The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud, with Cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policeman Morgan Earp, Special Policeman Wyatt Earp,"
"Billy Claiborne Billy Claiborne (October 21, 1860 – November 14, 1882), was an American outlaw Cowboy, drover, miner, and gunfighter in the American Old West. He killed James Hickey in a confrontation in a saloon, but it was ruled self-defense. He was present at the beginning of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, but was unarmed and ran from the shootout. Only a year later, while drunk, he confronted gunfighter ""Buckskin"" Frank Leslie and was killed. William Floyd Claiborne was born in Yazoo County, Mississippi. As a young man he worked as a cowhand and remuda rider for John Slaughter"
"Harvey Logan Harvey Alexander Logan (1867 – June 17, 1904), also known as Kid Curry, was an American outlaw and gunman who rode with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's infamous Wild Bunch gang during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite being less well-known than his fellow gang members, he has since been referred to as ""the wildest of the Wild Bunch"", having reputedly killed at least nine law enforcement officers in five different shootings and another two men in other instances. He was involved in numerous shootouts with police and civilians and participated in several bank and"
"Roger Murtaugh Roger Murtaugh is a fictional character in the ""Lethal Weapon"" film series. Murtaugh was originally played by Danny Glover in all four films from 1987 to 1998, and later by Damon Wayans in the Fox television series in 2016. Murtaugh is a straitlaced veteran homicide detective sergeant and family man. He was a lieutenant of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the U.S. Army, and served in the Vietnam War. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1967 and celebrates his 50th birthday at the start of ""Lethal Weapon"". He has begun to consider retirement, hence his catchphrase,"
"men while with the gang. The Sundance Kid was possibly mistaken for Kid Curry; many articles referred to ""the Kid."" Longabaugh did participate in a shootout with lawmen who trailed a gang led by George Curry to the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout in Wyoming and was thought to have wounded two lawmen in that shootout. With that exception, though, his verified involvement in shootouts is unknown. Longabaugh and Logan used a log cabin at what is now Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming as a hide-out as they planned to rob a bank in Red Lodge, Montana. Parker, Longabaugh, and other desperados"
"Marion Hedgepeth Marion Columbus Hedgepeth (April 14, 1856 – December 31, 1909) – also known as the Handsome Bandit, the Debonair Bandit, the Derby Kid and the Montana Bandit – was a famous Wild West outlaw. Hedgepeth was born in Prairie Home, Missouri, on April 14, 1856. He ran away from home at age 15, worked as a cowboy, and was an outlaw by the time he was 20, having killed in Colorado and Wyoming, as well as having robbed trains. In a 1996 ""American Cowboy"" article titled ""The Debonair Killer"", David P. Grady noted: ""Marion Hedgepeth looked like a"
"on The molding clay of Limping John. Tread lightly, stranger, on this sod. For if he moves, you’re robbed, by God""</poem> Cornelius Donahue Cornelius Donahue alias ""Lame Johnny"" (c.1850 in Philadelphia – 1878), was an American cattle rustler, horse thief and general Wild West outlaw from the Black Hills of South Dakota. His gang's most notorious robbery was probably $3,500 in currency, $500 in diamonds, hundreds of dollars' worth of jewelry and 700 pounds of gold dust, nuggets and bullion from a special treasure coach called the ""Monitor"" belonging to the Homestake Mine in October 1878. Doug Engebretson in his"
"2018. Holliday was nationally known during his life as a gambler and gunman. The shootout at the O.K. Corral is one of the most famous frontier stories in the American West and numerous Western TV shows and movies have been made about it. Holliday is usually a prominent part of the story. Actors who have portrayed Holliday include: Doc Holliday John Henry ""Doc"" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp. He is best known for his role in the events leading up to and following"
"Harry Lazarus Harry Lazarus (1839 – January 2, 1865) was an English-born American pugilist, saloon keeper, thief and underworld figure in New York City during the 1850s and early 1860s. He is sometimes confused with his father, famed pugilist Israel ""London Izzy"" Lazarus, and was one of his three sons along with John and Izzy Lazarus, Jr. His murder by Barney Friery, and subsequent trial, in 1865 was one of the most notorious crimes in the city's history prior to the end of the American Civil War. Lazarus came to the US with his father and two brothers when Izzy"
"Danny Glover Danny Lebern Glover (; born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is known for his lead role as Roger Murtaugh in the ""Lethal Weapon"" film series. He also has leading roles in the films ""The Color Purple"" (1985), ""To Sleep with Anger"" (1990), ""Predator 2"" (1990), ""Angels in the Outfield"" (1994) and ""Operation Dumbo Drop"" (1995). Glover has prominent supporting roles in ""Silverado"" (1985), ""Witness"" (1985), ""Saw"" (2004), ""Shooter"" (2007), ""2012"" (2009), ""Death at a Funeral"" (2010), ""Beyond the Lights"" (2014), ""Dirty Grandpa"" (2016), and ""Sorry to Bother You"" (2018). He"
"Harry Brunette Harry Walter Brunette (August 19, 1911 – February 19, 1972) was an American bank robber and Depression era outlaw. The Federal Bureau of Investigation declared him a national ""public enemy"" when, in 1936, he and his partner Merle Vandenbush (1907–1991) robbed a series of banks in the New York City area, and kidnapped New Jersey state trooper William A. Turnbull. The New York City Police Department found Brunette and Vandenbush hiding out in an apartment on West 102nd Street, on December 14, 1936. Upon locating Brunette, the NYPD informed the FBI of the outlaws' whereabouts. Although this was"
"Mart Duggan Martin J. ""Mart"" Duggan (November 10, 1848 – April 9, 1888) was a gunfighter of the American Old West who, although mostly unknown today, was at the time one of the more feared men in the west. He is listed by author Robert K. DeArment, in his book """"Deadly Dozen"""", as one of the most underrated gunmen of the Old West. Duggan was born Martin J. Duggan, in County Limerick, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States as a child, with his parents, and was raised in the Irish slums of New York City. In July, 1863, following"
"leg. Wyatt responded by sending several rounds into Billy. On April 14, 1881, lawman Dallas Stoudenmire participated in a gunfight in El Paso, Texas which many dubbed the Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight, in which he killed three of the four fatalities with his twin .44 caliber Colt revolvers. One of those killed was an innocent Mexican bystander. Less than a year after these incidents, he would kill as many as six more men in gunfights while in the line of duty. Another well-documented gunfight resulted in the most kills by one person in a single event, when Capt."
"in such a case. Richardson died on the floor of the saloon, and the shooting was ruled self defence in a coroners inquest, with no trial. The gunfight, which later became known as the ""Long Branch Saloon Gunfight"", gave notoriety to Loving. Levi Richardson Levi Richardson (1851 – April 5, 1879) was an Old West gunman, gambler and buffalo hunter. During his lifetime, Richardson was quite well known. Richardson was born in Wisconsin, migrating to Dodge City, Kansas after first working for a lengthy period as a buffalo hunter. When he first arrived in Dodge City, his reputation as being"
"between bandits and lawmen. Lawless violence such as range wars like the Lincoln County War and clashes with Indians were also a cause. Some of these shootouts became famous, while others faded into history with only a few accounts surviving. To prevent gunfights from happening, many cities in the American frontier, such as Dodge City and Tombstone, put up a local ordinance to prohibit firearms in the area. The Gunfight at the OK Corral is a famous example of a real-life western shootout, between the Earp Brothers together with Doc Holliday, and the Clanton-McLaury gang. It lasted only 30 seconds,"
"Forest. Codrington is the only township in Australia to be named after a bushranger. About this time he took the name, Henry Garratt where he lived with an 'actress' on the Ballarat goldfields. On 16 October 1854 'Long Harry', with three accomplices, Quin, Murryatt, and Bolton robbed the Ballarat branch of the Bank of Victoria of at least £20,000. The four men who entered the Bank with their faces covered with crape, in broad daylight, and aimed with pistols. There were only two persons in the Bank at the time, and, while the Garratt stood over them with a loaded"
"Henry Newton Brown Henry Newton Brown (1857 – April 30, 1884) was an American Old West gunman who played the roles of both lawman and outlaw during his life. Brown was raised in Cold Springs Township, in Phelps County, ten miles south of Rolla, Missouri. An orphan, he lived there with his uncle Jasper and aunt Aldamira Richardson until the age of seventeen, when he left home and headed west. He drifted through various cowboy jobs in Colorado and Texas, supposedly killing a man in a gunfight in the Texas Panhandle. In 1877, Brown landed in the New Mexico Territory,"