Legends of the Old West - Sundance Kid Traditional Cache

This series of geocaches is to celebrate some of the legends of the old west.  Being in Wyoming, this state has a rich history of old western legends such as gun fighters, outlaws, pioneers, Native American’s, soldiers, and other people along with historical places who helped shape the great State of Wyoming and the old west.  Please enjoy this series of caches and please enjoy a little piece of old western history.

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – November 7, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) after Parker was released from prison around 1896. Together with the other members of "The Wild Bunch" gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history.

After pursuing a career in crime for several years in the United States, the pressures of being pursued, notably by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, forced Longabaugh, his girlfriend Etta Place, and Cassidy to abandon the United States. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were probably killed in a shootout in November 1908.

The information provided about the individual and/or events as described below are courtesy of the information presented on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Kid) that was effective on the date this cache was activated.