This classic photo of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, taken at the John Swartz Photographic Studio in Fort Worth, Texas on 21 November 1900, includes other, lesser-known members of their gang. The one seated at the far left is William Richard Carver. (Click the post title for his full history.) He was born on 12 September 1868 in Wilson County, Texas. After being falsely accused of a murder, he headed out to become an outlaw. His first bank robbery, in August of 1896 in Nogales, Arizona, was a failure. By May of 1897, however, he'd joined the Ketchum Gang, and they held up a Southern Pacific train in Lozier, Texas. In September, they robbed the Colorado and Southern Flyer Gulf Express at Folsom, New Mexico, escaping with $3500. In July of 1899, they held up the same train in the same place again, taking $50,000 this time. By September of 1900, he's hooked up with Butch and Sundance, and robs a bank in Winnemucca, Nevada, getting over $32,000 in gold. When he and George Kilpatrick ride into Sonora, Texas on 2 April 1901 to buy supplies, the sheriff attempts to arrest him; in the shootout, Kilpatrick is wounded and Carver is killed. He was buried in the Sonora Cemetery on 4 April 1901.
29 June 2009
Not Butch nor Sundance, but the other guy
This classic photo of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, taken at the John Swartz Photographic Studio in Fort Worth, Texas on 21 November 1900, includes other, lesser-known members of their gang. The one seated at the far left is William Richard Carver. (Click the post title for his full history.) He was born on 12 September 1868 in Wilson County, Texas. After being falsely accused of a murder, he headed out to become an outlaw. His first bank robbery, in August of 1896 in Nogales, Arizona, was a failure. By May of 1897, however, he'd joined the Ketchum Gang, and they held up a Southern Pacific train in Lozier, Texas. In September, they robbed the Colorado and Southern Flyer Gulf Express at Folsom, New Mexico, escaping with $3500. In July of 1899, they held up the same train in the same place again, taking $50,000 this time. By September of 1900, he's hooked up with Butch and Sundance, and robs a bank in Winnemucca, Nevada, getting over $32,000 in gold. When he and George Kilpatrick ride into Sonora, Texas on 2 April 1901 to buy supplies, the sheriff attempts to arrest him; in the shootout, Kilpatrick is wounded and Carver is killed. He was buried in the Sonora Cemetery on 4 April 1901.
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