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Butch Cassidy and his pack of outlaws have had a profound force out on America during the late 1800s. Because of this infamous Wild Bunch, the famous Pinkerton guinea pig Detective Agency produced many wanted ads for these criminals. One of these clockless whole caboodle was made by the Pinkerton Agency and ended up in the men of my colleges library. This piece of historical literature dates back to round hundred eld ago which has descriptions of each of Butch Cassidy and others who rode with him on his adventurous, risk taking journeys just about the country. This antique piece of paper is very significant for its clock time period and is in still decent shape. Other than both(prenominal) separate around the corners, you can still read the entire page without a problem. This document has aged well, but still has changed its color to a brownish-beige. It also looks as if it was in either a book or a newspaper made to notify Americans of the crazed outlaws on the loose. A opinion press was used to make this notification for the Pinkerton Agency, which was an astounding invention of its time to speed up the process of getting newspapers out to the public. To track strike down the famed Wild Bunch, the Pinkertons set this document with detailed descriptions of each outlaw with their picture and name underneath it. This particular antique was produced on opera house House Block in Denver Colorado. With the Pinkertons report, this helped catch some of the most vicious outlaws of their time. There were many men in the gang that terrorized the western frontier, but the most notorious six were named and described on the document. George Parker, Harry Longbaugh, Camilla Hanks, Harvey Logan, Ben page 2Kilpatrick, and William Carver were all mentioned with their... ...y stole $97.00. other important name mentioned was Ben Kilpatrick who was a native Texan, but eventually Page 5left home and ventured into Wyoming and Utah. This is where he met Elzy Lay, who was a good fighter of Butch Cassidy. Lastly, was William Carver who was also a native Texan who went by the name B.L. Carver. He began his life working on a bed covering as a cowboy, but soon turned to the malicious slipway of Butch Cassidy. He met Butch Cassidy while at a den called the Robbers Roost in Utah and rode with them until his death in 1901. In conclusion, this intoxicating group of men were constantly a focal point of their suppress by the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late eighteenth century. With this piece of profound literature, we know a little more about our past and what it was like for these men during the time of the old wild west.