Rare Moments In History

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Butch Cassidy, aka: Robert Leroy Parker, Hiram Bebee (1867-1911 or 1937) - Born in Beaver, Utah, Robert Leroy Parker, was raised in the Mormon faith on his parent's ranch near Circleville, Utah. While working at a local dairy farm when he was a teenager, he fell in with a horse and cattle rustler by the name of Mike Cassidy.

Later he worked on several ranches and at a butcher shop in Rock Springs, Wyoming for a brief time. It was when he worked for the meat cutter, that he got the nickname of "Butch." Later, he borrowed his friend's name "Cassidy."

Butch went on to lead the Wild Bunch gang, which robbed trains and banks in Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reportedly moved their operations to Bolivia, where they were believed to have been killed in a shootout with Bolivian troops in 1911. Evidence exists, however, that Butch Cassidy relocated to Spokane, Washington , where he lived under the alias William T. Phillips until he died of cancer in the county poorhouse on July 20, 1937. Persistent reports also claimed that the Sundance Kid returned to the United States where he allegedly lived under the name of Hiram Bebee until his death in Wyoming in 1955.

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History in Pictures
Random Exciting Historical Pictures

Deadwood, South Dakota, 1900 (one of my favorite places to visit... they have a Casino downtown with a statue of "Wild Bill Hickok" outside playing cards at the entrance and inside, the best food you would ever want to eat.  ...Warph)

In pre-radar days London had listening gear for detecting German bombers by listening for their engine noises. 
This was a portable version.

Early Aircraft Listening Device.
"Amplifiers at Bolling Field, 1921." Two giant horns with ear tubes, evidently designed to listen for approaching aircraft.

Elephant-mounted machine gun, WWI - 1921

Porters transport a car on long poles across a stream in Nepal, January 1950.

The smallest shop in London -
A shoe salesman with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900

Battle of the Bulges - 1941

Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Federal lines at the battle of Nashville, 16 Dec 1864

Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896.

US Government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself

Testing football helmets, 1912

Coffee shop - Baltimore, Maryland 1930

In the Casbah district, French troops stand guard,
always on the lookout for possible riots. Algiers, 1960.

Potosi, Bolivia, 1957

1909 Georgia. Macon. Willingham Cotton Mill Boys. Dirty and serious as man

1902 Illinois. Chicago. Messenger Boys Strike

What People in 1939 Thought We'd Be Wearing in 2000

Cannibalism during the Russian famine of 1921.

A thrilled, recently liberated Frenchman lights Winston Churchill's cigar as he drives through an amused crowd, Cherbourg, France, 1944

May 1936, Robert Wadlow at 18 years old with his mother and brother Harold Jr.

Robert Wadlow (Born Robert Pershing Wadlow on 22 February 1918 – died 15 July 1940) is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He is often known as the "Alton Giant" because of his Alton, Illinois hometown.

Robert Wadlow reached 8 feet 11.1 inches (272 cm) in height and weighed 490 pounds (220 kg) at his death. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood was due to hypertrophy of his pituitary gland which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone. He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death.

"11:00 A. M . Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin.
They were all smoking. Location: St. Louis, Missouri."