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3) Sundance
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A gripping historical novel of love and vengeance starring Harry Longbaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid. Legend has it that bank robber Harry Longbaugh and his partner Robert Parker were killed in a shootout in Bolivia. That was the supposed end of the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy. "Sundance" tells a different story. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Longbaugh is very much alive, though serving in a Wyoming prison under an alias. When...
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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...
7) In Patagonia
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Gives an account of Bruce Chatwin's journey through Patagonia, where he searched for almost-forgotten legends, Butch Cassidy's log cabin, and the descendants of Welsh immigrants.
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Readers may know the name Butch Cassidy because of a movie or TV show. They may not know that he was a real man named Robert Leroy Parker! A real cowboy and a butcher for a time, this legendary outlaw eventually became a criminal during the 1800s in the American West. Later, he became involved with the "Sundance Kid" and lived his life on the run. Readers follow the incredible story as Butch Cassidy came to be the infamous outlaw of stories today....
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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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Jerry Nickle is the great-grandson of William Long, the Sundance Kid, who was a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang. While many are familiar with Sundance's exploits as an outlaw, few are aware of the more colorful aspects of his personal life, or what really happened to him after 1908, following a shootout in Bolivia. Nickle shares his fascinating family history, reveals many truths, and relates the intriguing stories he heard as a child.
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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.