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# Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/american-experience/episode/american-experience-butch-cassidy-sundance-kid/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:50:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-16T03:30:24.000Z
- Description: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid took a smart and methodical approach to robbery.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: American Experience, Season 26, Episode 4, #ZZZ_Episode_95ca0cc9-22ae-4674-8359-67b3cccbfd7c, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_565410c5-fa6f-4aa6-b2bd-9f1fcdc0e587, #v1.16

In an era in which cold-blooded killers such as Jesse James and the Younger Brothers terrorized the American West, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and their Wild Bunch gang took a smart and methodical approach to bank and train robbery. In the 1890s, their thrilling exploits robbing banks and trains and then seemingly vanishing into thin air became front-page news and the basis of rumor and myth.