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279 When Cassidy and Longabaugh journeyed to Fort Worth, they probably did not travel in the comfort and style to which their recent access of wealth entitled them. If they had any opportunity to buy new clothing to replace the worn and dirty garments they had worn on their flight from Winnemucca, a heightened sense of caution could have warned them against doing so until they had put a couple of states between Nevada and themselves. Thus they might well have traveled by side-door Pullman, as stated in one early account of their careers, rather than as paying passengers.1 Whether they posed as tramps or as gentlemen, they would have taken the Colorado & Southern from Denver through Trinidad and Texline to Fort Worth. They would have arrived during the third week of November, no more than a couple of days before Carver, Logan, and Kilpatrick came in from San Antonio. Carver, whose trip from the north preceded theirs by several weeks, would have taken the same route. Most likely he, Logan, and Kilpatrick knew just when and where to meet Cassidy and Longabaugh. Celebrations were due, and they were lavishly done. Soon after their reunion, the five commemorated the occasion for all time. On November 21, attired in the most fashionable city togs, and either inebriated or about to become so, they assembled at Swartz’s photographic studio on Main Street for one of the most famous of all group portraits. Seated are Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, Benjamin Arnold Kilpatrick, and Robert Leroy Parker; standing, William Richard Carver and Harvey Alexander Logan. Only Parker, known in Fort Worth’s saloons and brothels as Jim Ryan and to law-enforcement agencies throughout the West as Butch Cassidy, looks the camera directly in the eye. The Swartz View Company was just a few doors from Maddox Flats, the building in which they had taken furnished rooms. It was also close both to the hothouses of the red light district (“Hell’s Half Acre”) and the local office of that citadel of virtue, the Wells, Fargo Express Company.2 Carver and Logan still had the girls they had brought from San Antonio, and Will was going to marry his. But, amid all the gaiety and jollification, they were giving + 20 ∂ “BEFORE HE COULD COCK HIS PISTOL” 280 The Deadliest Outlaws thought to matters even more serious than the holy vows of matrimony between a train robber and his trollop. Butch had already made up his mind to leave the country, and Sundance had agreed to go with him. They had cashed in on crime; unlike most of their kind, they wanted to turn the proceeds into investment capital to provide the basis for a profitable retirement. First, though, they needed a sanctuary. Cassidy had persuaded Longabaugh that they would find none anywhere in the United States, but would be comparatively safe in South America. The idea was discussed with the others, perhaps put to them as a proposal. They were uninterested. Carver’s viewpoint was parochial; he would rather “die on dirt I know than live in some jungle.”3 Doubtless the full extent of his knowledge of the southern continent was something he may have heard about the Amazon and its forests. Probably on November 23, Carver, Logan and their consorts left Fort Worth for a few days each in Houston and San Antonio. By the 29th they were back in Fort Worth, where, on December 1, Carver, under his current alias of “Will Casey,” and “Lillie Davis,”under her real name of Callie May Hunt, applied for a licence to marry. The ceremony was performed the same day by John P. Terrell, Justice of the Peace of Precinct Number One (Fort Worth), Tarrant County.4 That day or the next brought the dissolution of the Fort Worth Five. All had trains to catch. Ben, Cassidy, and Longabaugh went to San Antonio, where for two weeks they mingled freely with Fannie Porter’s household. Fannie was unable to remember this when interviewed by the San Antonio Express in 1902, but Lillie assured a Pinkerton detective that Fannie was well enough acquainted with Longabaugh to know he had had a gold false tooth replaced by a white one.5 Mr. and Mrs. Carver, alias Casey, were bound in the opposite direction. They were accompanied northward by Harvey Logan and Maude Smith, Walker, or Williams. At Denver the two couples stayed two nights at the Victor Hotel. Their next stopover was at Shoshone...

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