THE REAL WILD BUNCH / HOLE-IN-THE-WALL GANG
These photos (besides Sundance Kid) were taken by John Swartz circa 1900...
John Swartz was a photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
He is notable for taking portraits of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang of outlaws...
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch was one of the loosely organized outlaw gangs operating out of the Hole-in-the-Wall, near Kaycee in Wyoming, a natural fortress with caves, with a narrow entrance which was constantly guarded...
Sometimes the gang was referred to as the 'Hole in the Wall Gang'.
This was during the Old West era in the United States...
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...
Hollywood portrays Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and the Wild Bunch as Caucasians, however eyewitness reports and first hand accounts tell us a very different story...
“He [Butch Cassidy] was a tall, good - looking cowboy, with a dark complexion, a neatly trimmed moustache and quick, intelligent eyes.”
(David Everitt, “Legends: The Story of the Sundance Kid”)
“Elzy Lay was a very handsome young man. He was tall and slim and had a dark complexion”
(Ronald W. Lackmann, “Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film”)
Dark = partially or wholly black
Complexion = the hue or appearance of the skin and especially of the face
“Besides Butch Cassidy, others played a key role during their robbery spree in the United States. Harvey Logan, known also as the infamous Kid Curry was the Wild Bunch’s number one killer. The girls didn’t seem to mind his tobacco - stained teeth and his swarthy complexion”
(Gail Drago, “Etta Place: Her Life and Times with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”)
Black, Dark Brown, Tawny (Tan colored)
(Samuel Johnson, “A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar.”; Vol 4; 1818)
“Old “Pike” Landusky, who was quite a figure in the country, made the mistake of calling him [Kid Curry] a ni66er because of his swarthy complexion, and paid for it with his life”
(Ridgway Company, “Adventure: Volume 40”; 1923)
“The last of the train robbers, Black Jack Ketchum, who terrorized the railroads in the 1880’s killed two men near this spot and hid out in a cave near Saddleback Mesa. The swarthy bandit was wounded in his last robbery and hanged in 1901”
“Father Stanley, in his book on outlaws of New Mexico said that since Tom was of “swarthy complexion, the cowboys had named him Black Jack.”
“His nickname came from the fact that he was swarthy in complexion”
“Tom, who stood about six feet two inches tall , weighed about 180 pounds, and had a swarthy appearance”
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