The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: If you go to the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee, you will find the grave of Laura Bullion. It's nice enough, but not particularly remarkable. You'd never know that Laura was the only female member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch"… pic.twitter.com/yBfRQh535y

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The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: If you go to the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee, you will find the grave of Laura Bullion. It's nice enough, but not particularly remarkable. You'd never know that Laura was the only female member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch" Gang.

Laura was most likely born in Knickerbocker, Texas in 1876, though there are also claims that she was born in Arkansas or Kentucky. She was probably of German and Native American heritage.

In the 1890s, Laura Bullion was a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang; her cohorts were fellow outlaws, including the Sundance Kid, "Black Jack" Ketchum, and Kid Curry. For several years in the 1890s, she was romantically involved with outlaw Ben Kilpatrick ("The Tall Texan"), a bank and train robber and an acquaintance of her father, who had been an outlaw, as well. In 1901, Bullion was convicted of robbery and sentenced to five years in prison for her participation in the Great Northern train robbery. She was released in 1905 after serving three years and six months of her punishment.

Laura Bullion moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1918, posing as a war widow and using assumed names. She supported herself as a householder and seamstress, and later as a drapery maker, dressmaker and interior designer. Her fortunes declined in the late 1940s, at which time she was without an occupation. In 1961, she died of heart disease at the Shelby County Hospital in Memphis. As I mentioned at the beginning, her final resting place is at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.

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