Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, the Fort Worth Five, the Hole in the Wall Gang, Union Pacific Railroad is a mixed media by Thomas Pollart which was uploaded on September 3rd, 2018.
Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, the Fort Worth Five, the Hole in the Wall Gang, Union Pacific Railroad
Some of the gang posing, ironically, in front of an Union Pacific Railroad Line advertising poster print. One of one, original art & design.... more
Title
Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, the Fort Worth Five, the Hole in the Wall Gang, Union Pacific Railroad
Artist
Thomas Pollart
Medium
Mixed Media - Mixed Media, Art, Photograph, Painting, Digital Art, Print
Description
Some of the gang posing, ironically, in front of an Union Pacific Railroad Line advertising poster print. One of one, original art & design.
This image is known as the 'Fort Worth Five Photograph.' Front row right to left : Harry A. Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy; Standing: Will Carver & Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry; Fort Worth, Texas, 1900.
The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang was not simply one large organized gang of outlaws but rather was made up of several separate gangs, all operating out of the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass, using it as their base of operations.
Members of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang included such infamous criminals as Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch which consisted of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Elzy Lay, Tall Texan, 'News' Carver, Camilla 'Deaf Charlie' Hanks, Laura Bullion, George "Flat Nose" Curry, Harvey 'Kid Curry' Logan, Bob Meeks, Kid Curry's brother Lonny Curry, Bob Smith, Al Smith, Bob Taylor, Tom O'Day, 'Laughing' Sam Carey, Black Jack Ketchum, and the Roberts Brothers, along with several lesser known outlaw gangs of the Old West. Jesse James was also mentioned to have visited the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout.
Several posses trailed outlaws to the location, and there were several shootouts as posses attempted to enter, all resulting in the posses being repulsed, and being forced to withdraw. No lawmen ever successfully entered it to capture outlaws during its more than fifty years of active existence, nor were any lawmen attempting to infiltrate it by use of undercover techniques successful.
The encampment operated with a steady stream of outlaw gangs rotating in and out, from the late 1860s to the early 20th century. However, by 1910, very few outlaws used the hideout, and it eventually faded into history.
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September 3rd, 2018
