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  • NAME: Sundance Kid
  • OCCUPATION: Thief
  • BIRTH DATE: 1867
  • DEATH DATE: c. November 06, 1908
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Mont Clare, Pennsylvania
  • PLACE OF DEATH: San Vicente, Bolivia
  • Originally: Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
  • Nickname: Sundance Kid

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Sundance Kid was an American criminal best known for his train robberies and bank heists with the Wild Bunch gang in the late 1890s and early 1900s.


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Before long the two were back to being outlaws, robbing banks and trains just as they’d done in the States.

As the story goes, Cassidy and Sundance lost their lives in a shootout with soldiers in southern Bolivia on November 3, 1908, but the truth of their end has never been fully settled. Debate lingers over where and when Sundance actually died. One account, which bears some historical evidence, suggests he returned to the United States under a new name, William Long,

and settled into a new life as a Utah rancher. According to the story, he married a widow with six children in 1894 and lived to be an old man, eventually dying in 1936.

Whatever the true story might be, Sundance is one of the real legends of the American West. In 1969, his life and relationship with Butch Cassidy was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman (Cassidy) and Robert Redford (Sundance).

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