Despite being less well-known than his fellow gang members, he has since been referred to as "the wildest of the Wild Bunch",[1] having reputedly killed at least nine law enforcement officers in five shootings and another two men in other instances.

He was involved in numerous shootouts with police and civilians and participated in several bank and train robberies with various gangs during his outlaw days.

His mother died in 1876, and his brothers, Hank, Johnny and Lonny, moved to Dodson, Missouri to live with their aunt Lee Logan.

Kid Curry would often return from a train or bank robbery, get drunk and lay up with prostitutes until his share of the take was gone.

To avoid arrest, he fled, settling in southern Wyoming, where he began work at the "Circle Diamond" ranch.

[2][3][4] The ranch was near the site of a mine strike made by local miner and lawman Powell "Pike" Landusky.

In January 1896, Curry received word that an old friend of Landusky's, rancher James Winters, had been spying on him for the reward offered in his arrest.

[5] The brothers then received employment on a cattle ranch, arranged by their cousin, Bob Lee, near Sand Gulch, Colorado.

On June 2, 1899, the gang robbed the Union Pacific Railroad Overland Flyer passenger train near Wilcox, Wyoming, a robbery that became famous.

[7] Tom Horn, a noted killer-for-hire and contract employee of the Pinkerton Agency, obtained information from explosives expert Bill Speck that identified George Curry and Kid Curry as Hazen's murderers, which Horn passed on to Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo.

Siringo changed his name to Charles L. Carter, disguised himself as an on-the-run gunman, and began mingling with people who might know the Currys, becoming friends with Jim Thornhill.

However, Kid Curry was hiding in Robbers Roost, another hideout used by the Wild Bunch in the remote canyon country of Utah.

A posse led by Huerfano County, Colorado Sheriff Ed Farr[11] cornered the gang near an area called Turkey Creek, which resulted in two gun battles over a period of four days.

At the time of their meeting, she was working in Madame Fannie Porter's brothel, which was a regular hideout for the Wild Bunch gang.

On February 28, 1900, lawmen attempted to arrest Lonny Curry at his aunt's home in Dodson, Montana but was killed in the shootout that followed, and his cousin Bob Lee was arrested the same day at Cripple Creek, Colorado, for rustling and sent to prison in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and sentenced on 28 May 1900 to ten years in the state penitentiary at Rawlins, Wyoming.

Local Apache County Sheriff Edward Beeler gathered a posse and began tracking Curry, who was accompanied by Bill "News" Carver.

On May 26, Kid Curry rode into Utah and killed Grand County Sheriff Jesse Tyler and Deputy Sam Jenkins in a brazen shootout in Moab.

Gang member Bill Carver was killed in Sonora, Texas, by Sutton County, Sheriff Elijah Briant during the pursuit following that robbery.

In October 1901, Della Moore was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, for passing money tied to an earlier robbery involving Curry.

[16] On December 13, Kid Curry shot Knoxville, Tennessee, policemen William Dinwiddle[17] and Robert Saylor[18] in a shootout and escaped.

He was convicted of robbery because facts in the murder of the two policemen were not definite and no witnesses would testify, and he received a sentence of 20 years of hard labor and a $5,000 fine.

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.

Curry is buried in Pioneer (Linwood) Cemetery overlooking Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a short distance from fellow gunfighter Doc Holliday's memorial.

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.