# Who were those guys?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-those-guys/79599>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 4, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-those-guys/79599 "2001-09-04T01:18:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-those-guys/79599/1 "2001-09-04T01:18:42Z")

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Remember, in the movie _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_, everyplace BC & SD went, they kept looking behind and seeing riders following them at a distance. And they kept asking “Who are those guys?”

So was the question ever answered?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-those-guys/79599/2 "2001-09-04T01:29:17Z")

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Yes, it was a group of U.S. marshalls and others who had been sent specifically to catch Butch and Sundance, led by U.S. Marshall for Wyoming [Joe LeFors.](http://www.fitzgeraldlaw.com/home/cassidy)

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-those-guys/79599/3 "2001-09-04T01:37:43Z")

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The full posse was made up of LeFors, who they recognize at a distance by his trademark white straw boater, the legendary Indian tracker Lord Baltimore (“He could track anybody. Over anything. Day or night.”) plus Jeff Carr, George Hiatt, and T. T. Kelliher, hired by E.H. Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad to hunt them down relentlessly.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-those-guys/79599/4 "2001-09-04T03:57:14Z")

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This is better suited to Cafe Society.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-those-guys/79599/5 "2001-09-04T04:28:18Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Colibri \*  
> …hired by E.H. Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad to hunt them down relentlessly.

“If he’d just pay me what he’s paying them to stop me robbing him, I’d stop robbing him!”

Brilliant.

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**Author:** ![willdawit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e47c2d/32.png) [@willdawit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willdawit)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-those-guys/79599/6 "2017-02-25T23:18:19Z")

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The one man was T.T Kelliher who later became a chief special agent for the Illinois Central Railroad. He’s my great great uncle.