Butch Cassidy, the last of the great western train-robbers, is born on this day in Beaver, Utah Territory.
Born Robert Leroy Parker, he was the son of Mormon parents who had answered Brigham Young’s call for young couples to help build communities of Latter Day Saints on the Utah frontier. Cassidy was the first of 13 children born to Max and Annie Parker.
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