Studios abroad also began telling Western stories early on, with Mitchell and Kenyon's 1899 British film "Kidnapping by Indians" the first known example. Edison's 1901 film "Stage Coach Hold-up", based on Buffalo Bill's "Hold-up of the Deadwood Stage" act, probably influenced Porter directly. Porter may have also been inspired by recent real events related to the American West: in August 1900, Butch Cassidy and his gang had robbed a Union Pacific Railroad train and escaped capture, and in September 1903, Bill Miner's gang made an unsuccessful holdup of an Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company train.