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"The Pinkertons knew her as "Ethel," "Ethal,' "Eva," and "Rita" before finally settling on "Etta" Place for their wanted posters. After Sundance [Harry Alonzo Longabaugh] introduced her to Robert Parker (Butch Cassidy), the three joined the rest of their Wild Bunch gang and set off on a spree of bank, stagecoach, and train robberies. With the law hot on their heels, they rode up to Robber's Roost in southwestern Utah where they laid low until word...
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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...
4) Miss Etta
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"She rode with the most famous outlaws of her time. Then she vanished. In the fall of 1895, Etta Place falls in love with Harry Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid. She gives up everything to follow him and his partner-in-crime, Butch Cassidy, in their outlaw life across the continent and beyond. Breathtakingly beautiful and every inch a lady, Etta can also ride and shoot as well as any man. As their fugitive life begins to crumble, she finds herself...
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" In this far-reaching novel, readers ride with The Sundance Kid and Etta Place through the last days of the Old West to their robbery spree in South America with Butch Cassidy, to Harry and Etta's running guns and stealing payrolls for Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution, and finally to new adventures in San Diego and wide-open Tijuana during Prohibition"--
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" ... [T]akes an enhanced look at the life of Etta Place before, during, and after the years spent with Butch and Sundance; in the States, on their voyage to South America, and the adventures at their ranch in Cholila, Argentina ... This account spans the years between 1896 and 1952; from the old West and Argentina, to WWI, the roaring twenties, the Depression, and WWII ..."--Page 4 of cover.