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Harry Longabaugh: The Independance Kid

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WANTED: Harry Longabaugh AKA The Sundance Kid “And you, your job is to shut up!” - Sundance Kid in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Harry Longabaugh AKA, the Sundance Kid was an old western outlaw. He was born in 1867 in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania. He moved out west when he was 15. Harry was a horse thief. He mainly lived in Pennsylvania. But his first crime was stealing a horse in Sundance, Wyoming. But throughout his “career” he was only arrested once and that was only for 18 months. It was his first time stealing when he was put in jail.He was caught red handed. Harry’s early years were very “interesting”. When he was 15 he left home for good.He took his nickname from the Wyoming town of Sundance, where he was arrested for the only time in his life after stealing a horse. For the crime Sundance served nearly two years in jail. Upon his release in …show more content…

Over the next few years Cassidy's gang robbed banks in Idaho. The gang eventually escaped to the Robbers' Roost in Utah. Cassidy now formed a new gang that became known as the Wild Bunch. This include Harry Longbaugh (the Sundance Kid), Ben Kilpatrick, Harvey Logan, William Carver,George Curry, Laura Bullion, Elza Lay and Bob Meeks. The wild bunch gang was a pretty large group of criminals. The crimes that he had committed were horse stealing, train robbers and bank robbers. When he was in the Wild Bunch, They were infamous of going on the longest crime spree in west American history. At one point he was the most wanted man in America. That can't be fun having people looking for you everywhere you go. He was never caught so he dodged a bullet. The sundance kid and and Butch Cassidy have a movie. The movie came out in 1969. The movie called Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid. The movie is about about how they joined they wild bunch and their live before and after being criminals. The movie was a best

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