Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. During his wild days in the Old West, he also went by the names of Frank Smith, H.A. Brown, Harry A. Place, and Harry Long.
Longabaugh was born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania in 1867, the youngest of five children of Josiah and Annie G. Place Longabaugh. When he was only 15 years old he headed west with a cousin. By the time he was 20, he stole a gun, a saddle and a horse from a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming, only to be almost immediately captured. He was convicted and spent 18 months in jail, at which time, he took on the nickname of the Sundance Kid.
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