Red Dead Redemption 2 And The REAL Wild West

While we know 1899 was at the tail end of the western era, nobody seemed to tell Butch Cassidy that.

In the very year Red Dead have set their new adventure, Butch Cassidy and his ‘wild bunch’: a Union Pacific train near Wilcox, Wyoming. The robbery, which will likely be replicated in near full in one of Red Dead 2’s missions, netted the gang between $36,000 and $50,000, depending on your source.

That amount equates to roughly $1,075,988.79 in today's money. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid would be gunned down in South America in 1908.