Butch Cassidy and Sundance's First Robbery Together
Before Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid became mythology, they were two men robbing a bank in Winnemucca, Nevada in 1900, taking roughly $32,500 — about a million dollars today. They reportedly sent the bank a thank-you photograph afterward. Their partnership lasted only a few years before Pinkerton agents made the American West too small. They fled to South America. Whether they died in Bolivia in 1908 or slipped back into the U.S. under fake names is a question historians still haven't fully closed.
September 19, 1900
126 years ago
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