Butch Cassidy recruited Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, also known as "The Sundance Kid", a native of Pennsylvania, into the Wild Bunch. In early 1897, Cassidy was joined at Robbers Roost by Ann Bassett, Elzy Lay, and Lay's girlfriend Maude Davis. The four hid there until early April, when Lay and Cassidy sent the women home so that the men could plan their next robbery. On April 22, 1897, in the mining town of Castle Gate, Utah, Cassidy and Lay ambushed a small group of men carrying the payroll of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company, stealing a sack containing $7,000 in gold, with which
Butch and femme is taken from the French word for woman. The word "butch", meaning "masculine", may have been coined by abbreviating the word "butcher", as first noted in George Cassidy's nickname, "Butch Cassidy". However, the exact origin of the word is still unknown. The butch web designer Daddy Rhon created a symbol of a black triangle intersecting a red circle to represent butch/femme sexuality, which was first used at the beginning of the 21st century on the website "butch-femme.com" and has started to be used elsewhere. There is debate about to whom the terms butch and femme can apply, and particularly whether