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Butch Cassidy

Butch Cassidy and his gang of outlaws have had a profound effect on America during the late 1800s. Because of this infamous “Wild Bunch,” the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency produced many wanted ads for these criminals. One of these timeless works was made by the Pinkerton Agency and ended up in the hands of Tarrant County College Library. This piece of historical literature dates back to about hundred years ago which has descriptions of each of Butch Cassidy and others who rode with him on his adventurous, risk taking journeys around the country.
This antique piece of paper is very significant for it’s time period and is in still decent shape. Other than some tears around the corners, you can still read the entire page without a problem. This document has aged well, but still has changed its color to a brownish-beige. It also looks as if it was in either a book or a newspaper made to notify Americans of the crazed outlaws on the loose. A printing press was used to make this notification for the Pinkerton Agency, which was an astounding invention of its time to speed up the process of getting newspapers out to the public. To track down the famed “Wild Bunch,” the Pinkertons set this document with detailed descriptions of each outlaw with their picture and name underneath it. This particular antique was produced on Opera House Block in Denver Colorado. With the Pinkerton’s report, this helped catch some of the most vicious outlaws of their time. There were many men in the gang that terrorized the western frontier, but the most notorious six were named and described on the
document. George Parker, Harry Longbaugh, Camilla Hanks, Harvey Logan, Ben
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Kilpatrick, and William Carver were all mentioned with their infamous nicknames.
George Parker was known as the legendary “Butch Cassidy,” Harry Longbaugh’s nickname was “The Sundance Kid,” Camilla Hanks went by “O.C. Hanks,” Harvey Logan’s alias was “Kid Curry,” “The Tall Texan” was...