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Robert Leroy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy,〔(''What's Up With All These Names?'' ) Bureau of Land Management. 18 January 2008. Accessed 13 June 2008.〕 was a notorious American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch gang in the American Old West. After pursuing a career in crime for several years in the United States, the pressures of being pursued, notably by the Pinkerton detective agency, forced him to flee with an accomplice, Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the Sundance Kid, and Longabaugh's girlfriend, Etta Place. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were probably killed in a shootout in November 1908. ==Ancestry and early life== Robert Leroy Parker was born April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah, the first of 13 children born to British immigrants Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.biography.com/people/butch-cassidy-9240908#early-years )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.historynet.com/butch-cassidy )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.utah.com/oldwest/butch_cassidy.htm )〕 The Parker and Gillies families had converted in England and Scotland to the Mormon faith and immigrated to Utah. Maximilian Parker was 12 when his family arrived in Salt Lake in 1856 as Mormon pioneers;〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/companyPioneers?lang=eng&companyId=195 )〕 Ann Gillies arrived with her family in 1859, aged 14. The two were married in July 1865. In 2008 documented evidence highlighted, Ann Gillies, the mother of Butch Cassidy, was born and lived on Tyneside, in the north east of England, before moving to America with her parents, where she later married Butch's father, Maximilian Parker, in Utah. Robert grew up on their ranch near Circleville, Utah, south of Salt Lake City. He left home during his early teens. While working at a dairy farm, he formed a close relationship with his mentor, a cowboy and cattle rustler who called himself Mike Cassidy (an alias for John Tolliver "J. T." McClammy). Parker subsequently worked at several ranches, in addition to a brief stint as a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming, when he acquired the nickname "Butch", to which he soon appended the surname Cassidy in honor of his old friend. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Butch Cassidy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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