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Long before Paul Newman and Robert Redford immortalized them on screen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid captivated Americans from coast to coast. In the 1890s, their exploits robbing banks and trains in the West, and then seemingly vanishing into thin air, became national news and the basis of rumors and myth.
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Centered on Currant Creek Ranch in southern Sweetwater County, this book depicts the history and development of the area. It also follows the development of the William H. and Carri Gottsche Foundation at Thermopolis, WY from the first dollar involving Butch Cassidy, the Currant Creek Ranch, and William Gottsche to the millions of dollars that the Foundation is now worth.
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This well-researched biography of the life- and controversial death- of Robert LeRoy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy, is a journey across the late nineteenth American West as we follow Cassidy's exploits in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, where he made his name as a surprisingly affable outlaw. More importantly, this book answers the following question: did Butch Cassidy, noted outlaw of the American West, survive his alleged death at the hands of Bolivian...
7) Blackthorn
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Surviving what everyone thought was a fatal ambush in Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
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In 1951, Indian grave robbers in Circleville, Utah, unearth a leather pouch that provides a clue to the whereabouts of Butch Cassidy's stolen treasure--a discovery that launches a breakneck race between a shady museum curator and Butch's grand nephew, sixteen year old Roy Parker, and his eclectic Boy Scout Patrol, to "Robbers Roost" and the real secret of Butch's treasure.
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The Sundance Kid is the frontier's fastest gun. His partner, Butch Cassidy is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, put on new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend, head down to Bolivia.
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This biography portrays the beautiful, enigmatic, and most elusive member of the Wild Bunch Gang -- Etta Place. Following Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid anywhere, Etta shared an adventurous life on the run that stretched from the mountainous Utah hideout of Robber's Roost to the red light district of San Antonio and finally to the remote South American region of Patagonia. The book also looks at many tales that place all three alive and well after...
16) Butch Cassidy
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A biography of the bandit who formed his own "Wild Bunch" of outlaws which became famous for its robberies throughout the Rocky Mountain states of the American West.
17) Etta: a novel
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Imagines the life of Etta Place, once a Philadelphia debutante whose father's death left her orphaned and backrupt, as she joins Butch Cassidy's notorious gang and begins a romance with the Sundance Kid.
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The Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. The almost inaccessible Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming was a station on the Outlaw Trail well known to Butch Cassidy. To the south, in Utah, was the inhospitable Robbers?...
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Asking the question "What if Butch Cassidy wasn't killed in the infamous Bolivian shootout in 1908?", an exciting novel of the Old West follows Butch as he, after fleeing South America, is pulled into the most dangerous train robbery he's ever attempted along with a new Wild Bunch.