Among the many treasures in the Little Snake River Museum in Savery, Wyoming is one that suggests Wyoming’s most infamous outlaw might have been innocent of at least one of the many crimes he has been accused of committing.
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The item is a rifle that once belonged to Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid.
Longabaugh gave the rifle to his friend Jesse F. Galloway in the year 1897. It was a thank you for his friend’s unsuccessful efforts to clear Longabaugh’s name in the infamous bank heist in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, which occurred in June of that year.
The bank heist didn’t go so well. In fact, many accounts suggest it was a comedy of errors.
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