Biography of butch cassidy
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1. Butch Cassidy’s family was among Utah’s early Mormon settlers.
Butch Cassidy's childhood home in Garfield County, Utah.
The eldest of 13 children, Butch Cassidy was born Robert LeRoy Parker on April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah.
Biography of butch cassidy
His grandparents and parents were Mormons who moved from England to America in the 1850s in response to Brigham Young’s call for overseas members of the Church of Latter-day Saints to help establish communities in Utah.
In 1879, the Parker family moved to a piece of property near Circleville, Utah, where they farmed and raised cattle.
To help contribute to his family’s finances, the future Butch Cassidy left home to work at other ranches in the area. At age 13, while working at one of these ranches, he had his first run-in with the law after being accused of stealing a pair of overalls from a store.
As the story goes, he’d made a long ride into town only to find the store closed, so he let himself in, took the pants and penned a note promis