On this day, June 24, in 1889, Butch Cassidy robbed a bank in Telluride, Colo., the first major heist for the outlaw later romanticized as the Robin Hood of the West.
Cassidy and three cowboys made off with about $21,000 and escaped to Robbers Roost, a remote hide-out in Utah.
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