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 had stolen 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.
After his release, he worked as a cowboy before being implicated in an 1892 train robbery, and by 1897, he had hooked up with Harvey Logan, a member of the Wild Bunch. The two then robbed a bank at Belle Fourche, South Dakota, on June 27th. Both men were captured but managed to escape from a Deadwood jail three months later. Afterward, they hid in a log cabin at Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, as they planned to rob a bank in Red Lodge, Montana.
