The Wild Bunch

In 1901, professional photographer John Swartz of Fort Worth took a famous photograph of five young men without realizing they were notorious outlaws. Swartz, one of the Swartz brothers who were considered Fort Worth’s premier photographers, was pleased enough with the image to place a copy in his studio window. Only after a Pinkerton detective recognized one of the men did Swartz learn he had created what became the legendary portrait of the Wild Bunch. The five men were Harry Longbaugh, known as the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, George Lee Roy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy, Will Carver, and Harvey Logan. They had been in Fort Worth for two months, but by the time law enforcement issued a wanted poster on May 15, 1901, the gang had already moved on, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were never captured.

Fort Worth, Texas · United States