They joined up with a posse and continued tracking the outlaws. The gang shot Gardner's and his neighbor's horses from under them; Gardner found cover while his neighbor started running. Kid Curry took aim at the neighbor and Gardner shot Curry. The wounded Curry decided to end it at that time, and fatally shot himself in the head to avoid capture. The other two robbers escaped. The rifle Gardner used is still in the family today. Rumors persist that Curry was not killed in Parachute and was misidentified, having actually departed for South America with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Charlie Siringo resigned from the Pinkertons, believing they got the wrong man. Curry is buried in Pioneer (Linwood) Cemetery overlooking Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a short distance from fellow gunfighter Doc Holliday's memorial. In popular culture Curry appears as a character in Mr American by George MacDonald Fraser. The novel, set in 1909, uses the controversy surrounding Curry's death to portray him as surviving the shootout near Parachute and later tracking the novel's protagonist, Mark Franklin, to England, where Curry attempts to kill Franklin. Phillip Pine played Kid Curry in the episode "Kid Curry" on the TV series Tales of Wells Fargo (1959). Ted Cassidy played Curry in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Ben Murphy portrayed a fictionalised Kid Curry in the 1970s television show Alias Smith and Jones. The MythBusters tested the claim that Curry could drop a silver dollar off his hand and then draw and fire five shots from his revolver before it hit the ground. They found the claim to be highly unlikely. Curry appears in the video game Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and is a boss-level duel opponent. In 2015, Rocky Mountain Distilling + Bottling located in West Valley City, Utah began producing Kid Curry Vodka. In 2016, Kid Curry Silver Rum was released by the same company. References External links post-mortem photo Kid Curry, the Wildest of the Bunch, article by Beth Gibson 1867 births 1904 deaths 1904 suicides 19th-century American criminals 20th-century American criminals American bank robbers American people convicted of murder Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch Cowboys Deaths by firearm in Colorado Fugitives Gunslingers of the American Old West Outlaws of the American Old West People from Eastland County, Texas Suicides by firearm in Colorado Train robbers