''THE SUNDANCE KID AND HENRY LONG" 

Timeline by Jerry Nickle

I have compiled the following information from the public record, books, and magazines; to show the possibility that Henry Long was Harry Longabaugh (THE SUNDANCE KID). But I cannot prove it.

1867   Harry A. Longabaugh is born in Pennsylvania.

1876   Andrew Allred (My Great-Great Grandfather) establishes a combination trading post, store, and hotel in Rabbit Valley, called Loa today. Loa is located in Wayne, County, Utah, and is about 50 miles west of the outlaw hideout Robbers Roost.   It is called Allred Point and there is a Historical Monument there now.  The History of Allred Point.

1876   Luzernia Allred was Andrew Allred’s oldest daughter. She was my great-grandmother and she married Silas Morrell my great-grandfather. They lived on Silas’s homestead in Fremont, just a few miles from Loa Utah. They had six children and my grandmother Chloe Jane was the oldest.

1887   Harry Longabaugh is convicted of horse theft and sentenced to 18 months in the Sundance, Wyoming jail. Because of this jail time he was called the Sundance Kid.
 
1889   Tom McCarty, Matt Warner, Butch Cassidy and probably Harry Longabaugh robbed the Telluride Colorado bank. Silas Morrell broke his back in a sawmill accident, and this injury eventually caused his death in 1893.

1891   The Morrells decide to move to Mexico hoping a warmer climate would improve Silas’s health. They made it as far as Farmington New Mexico and then decided to return to Fremont Utah .On the return trip they stopped in Cortez Colorado. One of the Morrells tells us there was a shootout in Cortez where two men are killed. (ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM MORRELL page 64)  The Morrells  met Henry on this trip he had a bullet leg wound and he returned to Fremont with the Morrells (FAMILY STORY).   At the time Cortez was the hometown of Harry Longabaugh, and he also had sustained a bullet leg wound at sometime out west before he visited his family in Pennsylvania in 1901. Ernst SUNDANCE MY UNCLE page 159

1892   Harry Longabaugh, along with Harry Bass and Bill Madden, hold up a train at Malta, Montana. There was a total reward of $ 1,000.00 for their capture. All three are caught, but Longabaugh escapes. As a fugitive with a price on his head, Longabaugh goes into obscurity for several years.

1893   Luzernia Allred Morrell’s husband Silas dies as a result of the sawmill accident. The McCarty's attempt to rob the Delta Colorado bank. The Morrells may have been helped by outlaw Tom McCarty. “Tom McCarty to the Rescue"

1894   Luzernia Allred Morrell marries William Henry Long. The marriage license shows Henry Long is 27 years old. This is the same age as Harry Longabaugh in 1894.

In Charles Kelley’s book THE OUTLAW TRAIL, on page100, we find Butch Cassidy staying at a hotel in Loa Utah. Loa is just a few miles from Henry and Luzernia’s homestead in Fremont and the hotel was probably Andrew Allred's Hotel.

Kelly also mentions my grandfather, Jerry Jackson, in his book THE OUTLAW TRAIL on page 150. Jerry Jackson was Henry Long’s future son-in-law. Kelly knew Jerry Jackson and his two sons Worthen and Perry well. Kelly probably heard some of his first Butch Cassidy stories from these brothers. Worthen and Perry Jackson operated a tour service and Kelly used their service and was introduced to Wayne County, Utah by these brothers.

 

1895   Butch Cassidy enters the Wyoming State Penitentiary. My Grandmother, Chloe Jane Morrell marries Jerry Jackson my Grandfather.

 

1896   Henry and Luzernia Long’s first child, Viola, is born in Fremont, Utah.
 

1896   Harry Longabaugh, "Sundance Kid," becomes active and is one of the robbers in the Belle Fourche, South Dakota Bank hold up.

Sometime after 1897 and before 1900, Henry Long must have left his wife and children since Luzernia is listed as “Head of Household” in the 1900 Fremont census.   The presence of Henry Long cannot be documented again until the 1910 Fremont Census record. 
 

1898   A second child, Evinda, is born to Henry and Luzernia Long in Fremont, Utah.

1899   Harry Longabaugh is one of the robbers of the Union Pacific Train at Wilcox, Wyoming.

1900   In September, Harry Longabaugh along with Will Carver and Butch Cassidy, hold up the Winnemucca National Bank in Winnemucca, Nevada.

1901   Harry Longabaugh, along with his girlfriend Etta Place, had their photograph taken at the De Young Studio in New York City, and shortly afterwards, sailed for Argentina.
 

 Pinkerton Archives.
1902

 

 

Left to right: Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid), Will Carver (Will Case), Ben Kilpatrick ( the Tall Texan), Harvey Logan ( Kid Curry), and Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy) Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, photo taken in Fort Worth, Texas.
 

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