Posted on 01/01/2010 1:05:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The red canyons and parched planes surrounding the new Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid Memorial Museum might make you think you're in the Old West. But the electrical wiring and a searing altitude headache tell you this is not California circa 1900, but high-up the mountains in present day Bolivia. Here in the tiny town of San Vicente (population 800), the world's most famous outlaws are supposed to have been gunned down 101 years ago, days after robbing the payroll of a Bolivian mine. Offing the bandits would seem to have been sufficient revenge but area residents still think the dead gringos have to pay.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
|
|||
Gods |
An unusual modern history ping. It has been pointed out that, despite claims by a few people including BC's baby sister that he escaped and lived under an assumed name in the US, the letters from Butch *all* antedate the events in Bolivia. |
||
· Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists · |
bookmark for later
Interesting. Thanks for the post.
Hey, if latinos can’t come to the U.S. illegally and make money, then they might as well stay home and make money off dead Americans. I wonder if the relatives of these two characters know about this? They should complain about it or at least move the bodies back to the U.S. and make money off them up here.....morbid sense of humor I have today, I guess.
I think that was the town they did a Discovery channel special on, because two North Americans were buried there. Turns out the one wasn’t Sundance for sure, and “Cassidy” was most likely not Butch, either.
Parched planes?
I noticed that, too.
I reread it twice, just to make sure there was no reference to an airplane.
Thanks, and welcome to FR.
Thanks!
I think the great writer Tony Hillerman placed Butch Cassidy
in a crime with loot found near Shiprock Arizona that involved Lt Leaphorn and an ex South Vietnamese officer and southwestern historian
Parched Planes? Thirsty Boeings?
Yeah i just read it very interesting i did not know suicide was involved...
I read about it at wiki to,and they claim the bodies are buried near the grave of Gustav Zimmer
Time article
“His testimony led to a 1991 exhumation in the spot Rizo said his father helped bury Sundance. The remains ended up being those of German man named Gustav Zimmer”
and from Wiki
“The bodies were buried at the small San Vicente cemetery, where they were buried close to the grave of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer. Although attempts have been made to find their unmarked graves, notably by the American forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his researchers in 1991, no remains with DNA matching the living relatives of Parker and Longabaugh have yet been discovered”
They do not have any bodies,the bones on display are Gustav Zimmer,as determined by DNA testing....
Interesting.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.