He Rode with Butch and Sundance: The Story of Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan

Pinned down by a posse, the wounded outlaws companions urged him to escape through the gulch. Dont wait for me, he replied, Im all in and might as well end it right here. Placing his revolver to his right temple, he pulled the trigger for the last time, thus ending the life of the notorious Kid Curry of the Wild Bunch. It is long past time for the publication of a well-researched, definitive biography of the infamous western outlaw Harvey Alexander Logan, better known by his alias Kid Curry. In Wyoming he became involved in rustling and eventually graduated to bank and train robbing as a memberand soon leaderof the Wild Bunch. The core members of the gang came to be Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, George Flatnose Currie, Elzy Lay, Ben the Tall Texan Kilpatrick, Will Carver, and Kid Curry. Kid Curry has been portrayed as a cold-blooded killer, without any compassion or conscience and possessed of limited intelligence. Curry indeed was a dangerous man with a violent temperament, which was aggravated by alcoholic drink. However, Smokov shows that Currys record of kills is highly exaggerated, and that he was not the blood-thirsty killer as many have claimed. Mark Smokov has researched extensively in areas significant to Currys story and corrects the many false statements that have been written about him in the past. Curry was a cunning outlaw who planned and executed robberies on par with anything Butch Cassidy is reported to have pulled off. Smokov contends that Curry was the actual train robbing leader of the Wild Bunchthere is no concrete evidence that Cassidy ever robbed a train. He also presents new evidence that is virtually conclusive in resolving whether or not Curry was the unknown bandit who was killed after robbing a train near Parachute, Colorado, in 1904.