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On the Trail of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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| Thursday, December 31, 2009
| Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
Posted on 01/01/2010 1:05:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Butch Cassidy's grave appears in San Vincente, Bolivia. [Noah Friedman-Rudovsky]
![On the Trail of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid](http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0912/cassidy_grave_1224.jpg)
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01/01/2010 1:05:10 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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01/01/2010 1:08:28 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
The tale is a winding one. Butch and Sundance, born LeRoy Parker and Harry Longabaugh in 1866 and 1867 respectively, together with their Wild Bunch Gang found infamy via lucrative yet humane bank and train robberies at the end of the 19th century in the US. In 1901, with the Pinkerton Detective Agency on their trail, the outlaws headed to South America, lured by the region's silver wealth. (The movie places them directly in Bolivia but they actually spent five years in Argentina and Chile). On November 4, 1908 they hit up a Bolivian mining company payroll delivery, expecting half a million dollars but finding only a few thousand. Two days later they arrived in San Vicente but were recognized by locals and trapped in a house without sufficient ammunition.
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01/01/2010 1:11:00 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
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01/01/2010 1:12:39 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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01/01/2010 1:14:45 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year!)
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01/01/2010 1:18:06 PM PST
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GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: SunkenCiv
Interesting. Thanks for the post.
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01/01/2010 1:25:32 PM PST
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walford
(http://the-big-pic.org)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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01/01/2010 1:26:14 PM PST
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john drake
(Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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01/01/2010 1:28:23 PM PST
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PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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01/01/2010 1:30:25 PM PST
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Mmogamer
(<This space for lease>)
To: Mmogamer
I noticed that, too.
I reread it twice, just to make sure there was no reference to an airplane.
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01/01/2010 1:40:27 PM PST
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Iowa Granny
(A Penny Saved, is a Penny TAXED)
To: SunkenCiv
To: Raul Raul
Thanks, and welcome to FR.
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01/01/2010 2:09:44 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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01/01/2010 2:10:14 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year!)
To: SunkenCiv
Ok it has been a long time ago and I was fairly young but we used to spend time around the feed and hardware store (yes the small South Dakota town still had one). There was this cowboy who claimed to have ridden with Butch and Sundance. He said they did not die in Bolivia but did indeed rob the mine and came back to live long and quite prosperous lives. One in New York and the other in San Fransisco(forget which was which). I always kinda hoped they did. But of course if they didn't you live by the gun you probably will die by the gun.
To: mad_as_he$$
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
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01/01/2010 2:32:58 PM PST
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bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . What ever I do is what shall be)
To: SunkenCiv
Parched Planes? Thirsty Boeings?
To: SunkenCiv
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”
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01/01/2010 3:07:21 PM PST
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GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: john drake
They do not have any bodies,the bones on display are Gustav Zimmer,as determined by DNA testing....
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01/01/2010 3:12:17 PM PST
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GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: bert
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