Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch was one of the loosely organized outlaw gangs operating out of the Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming during the Old West era in the United States. It was popularized by the 1969 movie, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", and took its name from the original Wild Bunch. The gang was led by Butch Cassidy, and it included his closest friend Elzy Lay, the Sundance Kid, Tall Texan, News Carver, Camilla "Deaf Charley" Hanks, Laura Bullion, Flat-Nose Curry, Kid Curry and Bob Meeks. They were the most successful train-robbing gang in history. This Wild
Butch Cassidy not to disclose his final resting place since "[T]hey had chased him all his life, and now he's going to rest in peace." This story is also recounted by W.C. Jameson in "Butch Cassidy: Beyond the Grave", referencing the 1975 book Betenson co-authored with Dora Flack, "Butch Cassidy, My Brother". William T. Phillips claimed to have known Butch Cassidy since childhood. In his book "In Search of Butch Cassidy", Larry Pointer speculated that Phillips was actually Butch Cassidy, based upon stories in Phillip's unpublished manuscript, "The Bandit Invincible," and a resemblance between Phillips and Cassidy. However, in 2012, Pointer obtained