The Wild Bunch Around the time of 1866-1868, legends were born. These gentlemen were born in completely different states, but would become the best partners in crime around the early 1900s. When they came together, they were outlaws that had the same passion, robbing anything from banks to trains and causing mischief. They had no idea that they would form one of the most unstoppable outlaw groups and were about to form a brotherhood that would last for a lifetime. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, were about to become two of the most notorious outlaws in history. BUTCH CASSIDY Robert Leroy Parker was born on April 13, 1886 in Beaver, Utah. Cassidy was the oldest of thirteen children. Raised in a poor mormon family, Cassidy had no idea what …show more content…
The group consisted of; Robert Leroy Parker ( Butch Cassidy), Harry Alonzo Lonabaugh ( The Sundance Kid), William Ellsworth Lay ( Elzy Lay), Ben Kilpatrick ( The Tall Texan), Harvey Logan ( Kid Curry), these outlaws went by the name of The Wild Bunch. ( Biograohy.com Editors). The group hit banks and trains in South Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wyoming. The first heist that the gang hit was a bank in Montpelier, Idaho on August 1896, and they ran off with over $7,000. Between heists The Wild Bunch often times hid at The-Hole-In-The-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming. The gang was for a time best known for their relatively low use of violence, during their robberies, they relied on intimidation, and negotiation. The word of the gang spread around the states fairly quickly, and the public was eager to read about their heists. With all the attention the group was receiving, it got to their heads and made the heists even bigger. One of the biggest robberies was a $70,000 haul from a train just outside of Folsom, New Mexico. With all of the train robberies that the gang was pulling off the Union Pacific Railroad company was getting very worried and upset. Unable to stop the Bunch, the Union Pacific Railroad went so far as to propose to Cassidy a pardon in exchange for the promise of ending his robberies and coming to work for the company as an express guard. ( Biograohy.com Editors). Cassidy turned the offer down. With no other choice the railroad company turned to law enforcement to put a permanent end to the Wild Bunch. To hunt the bunch down they hired the famouse Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which pushed Cassidy and the Sundance Kid into South America. With the men in South America, they continued their life of crime robbing trains and
What is a robber baron? Webster’s New Dictionary defines it as an American capitalist of the late 19th century who became wealthy through exploitation (As of natural resources, governmental influence, or low wage scales) or a person who satisfies himself by depriving another. In America we had a lot of these kind of people. For this report I am going to tell you about the ones that I found most interesting to me. I would first like to tell you about Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker burst upon the American Southwest in the Great Depression year of 1932. At the time of Clyde’s first involvement with a murder, people paid little attention to the event. He was just another violent hoodlum in a nation with a growing list of brutal criminals, which included Al Capone, John Dillenger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barker Gang. Not until Bonnie and Clyde joined forces did the public become intrigued. The phrase “Bonnie and Clyde'; took on an electrifying and exotic meaning that has abated little in the past sixty years.
On August 29, 1920, Parker was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He got his start on the alto saxophone in 1933, and in 1935 he moved on to become a full-time musician. At the time, Kansas City thrived with African-American music, so Parker took advantage of this. For a few years he played in various semi-professional groups, developing his skill through experience. In 1939, he moved to
Rose O’Neal Greenhow, also known as Wild Rose or Rebel Rose, was a Confederate supporter and spy during the American Civil War in the mid-1800s. Rose was born around 1813 or 1814. Her birth was never officially recorded, so no one knows for sure when her birthday was. She was born into a large slave-holding family in Montgomery County, Maryland. Out of the five daughters in her family, she was the third-born.
Ankle sprains are one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries and are especially relevant at all level of sport.1 Of all sports, the incidence of ankle sprain is higher in volleyball considering its non-contact nature.2 The most common ankle sprain occurs on the lateral or outside part of the ankle.3 Reports estimate that ankle sprains account for approximately 24% to 54% of all sport-related injuries and 23,000 persons get them per day in the United States.4
Maryln Bowlin of Taiban, New Mexico founded the Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang shortly thereafter for the purpose of protecting the true, and well researched, history of William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid.
Christopher Johnson McCandless was a hiker who also went by the name Alexander Supertramp and ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 with a bit of food and equipment, hoping to live in isolation. Almost four months later, McCandless's body was found, weighing only 30kg. His story shocked many people and got the attention of magazine writer Jon Krakauer. At First he wrote a small article in the magazine Outside that sparked a lot of controversy with the readers. Since Krakauer got a lot of attention from his article, he decided to do more investigation on McCandless’s journey. Krakauer end up writing the book named Into the Wild and explains with plenty of detail McCandless’s life before his journey to the wilderness. Now a days, most teenager or young adult would never give up the life they have, because the way were so attach to electronics and our surroundings, for Chris McCandless is a different story he gave everything he had in life to go out and live a life in seclusion that caused him his death.
Joaquin Murrieta a Young man out to seek revenge for his family and his country. Americans came and stole their land and now they are out to take their rights. Tuburcio Vasquez, the bandit that was lost. Two men, tired of Anglo men taking the rights of the Chicano people and forcing them to live lives of worry and horror, decided that they would have to stand up to defend their people. All Chicanos wanted is to be left alone and to preserve their rights, after all they were on their land that the Americans stole.
Bang! Pow! Bullets are raining down on the infamous Bonnie and Clyde. It is a standoff with the local police department. Bonnie and Clyde are in trouble again; robbing a liquor store of their cigarettes and their liquor. It seems as if Bonnie and Clyde were the greatest pair of criminals in history.
Bonnie and Clyde the most famous crime robbing duo, pushed the law enforcement to the top of their game trying everything they could to stop them. They left the police with no chance but to go for the kill when it came to shutting down the two. The duo will remain known for their jaw dropping crime spree.
The two films that are analyzed for similarities and differences to convey significant ideas for the integrity of their own story line: they are Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill and released in 1969, and Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1991. In these two films, we watch them search for freedom within ourselves and freedom from societal norms. Along the way this creates entanglement with the law and causing a constant chase throughout both films. What keeps these characters from backing down is their free-spirited, brave, and most important a firm grip on their own fate. This mentality keeps the characters on their toes from what’s holding them back, however their own actions, history
The story of Bandits is told in a flashback form, starting off in a standoff with the police at a bank called the Alamo. Which appeared to have gone very wrong, and then going back in time via a homemade interview made at the home of the host of Criminals at Large( An Americas Most Wanted type show). We first get to know Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) breaking out of an Oregon State Prison with the aid of a borrowed cement truck crashing through the prison gates all on a whim. That leads to an impromptu bank robbery started with a highlighter. Then two unsuspecting teenagers get to spend the night with the stars. Terry then came with a great idea, instead of charging into their targets with guns blazing, they spend the night before the robbery with the bank manager, and his lovely family and have a nice evening at home, and then walk into the bank before it’s open the next morning. So Joe and Terry start their careers as the “Sleep over Bandits.”
The author Chris Frazer main thesis of the book “Bandit Nation” is that the bandits were a big impact during this period of time and were causing many disagreements within the people. It was causing many tragedies that many wanted to put a stop to and reduce the number of bandits. As hard as they tried to achieve this goal with many laws, it was nearly impossible to reduce the number of bandits that there was. The main idea was that some of the bandits were seen as primitives, criminals, or rebels but it just depended on their own class and nationality (Frazer, pg. 21). The bandits were seen as criminals because they would go around and rob things. In the 1820s the crime and b...
Out of these three men Al Capone would probably be the most famous gangster that has ever lived. Just about everyone that has even looked a little bit into gangsters or watches a lot of old movies has heard of him. Al Capone became famous from working his way to the top of the ladder with an already pretty well know gang and eventually took over. All the cops got paid to look the other way, he robbed banks and of course, killed people. He would have been able to keep his grip on Chicago if he hadn’t tried to expand his territory ( ). February 14, 1929, seven gangsters from the north side are waiting in a SMC Cartage Co. garage when two policemen burst into the garage and declare a raid. They line the seven men up against a wall while two men not in uniform walk into the room and open fire on the s...