Butch and Sundance: The Early Days DVD as a double billing with "Death Hunt" on February 1, 2011. It is currently available on BLU-RAY through Timeless Media Group. Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel of sorts to the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". It stars Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid. It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. It generally received mixed reviews but was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Wyoming. Wannabe outlaw Butch Cassidy joins
Andrew Cassidy Andrew Cassidy Andrew Cassidy (c. 1817 – November 25, 1907) was an early settler of San Diego, California. Cassidy was born in County Cavan, Ireland and came to America in 1834 when 17. For three years he and was in the Engineering Corps at West Point, under General George B. McClellan. He then went to Washington, D. C. to work for the Coast Survey Office, under Professor Alexander Bache. About a year later, he was sent to the Pacific Coast as part of a party under Lieutenant William Trowbridge, U. S. Engineers. They reached San Francisco in July, 1853, and