Thanks wagglebee. In a word, no. The 200-page manuscript, "Bandit Invincible: The Story of Butch Cassidy," ... by William T. Phillips, a machinist who died in Spokane in 1937... Brent Ashworth and... Larry Pointer say the text contains... details only Cassidy could have known... and that Phillips himself was the legendary outlaw. That's such an obvious oxymoron, but let me elucidate -- if only B.C. could have known the details, there's no verification that the details are anything but fiction; and if the details just happen to also be known to Ashworth and Pointer, then there's no telling how many others (including those with no financial interest in the tale) knew those very same details.
The fact is, Butch wrote an unknown number of letters during the exile of the "family of three", some of which have survived.
None of them postdate the big Bolivian shootout. Weird coincidence, huh? ;')
The apocryphal tales of Butch alive in the US during the 1930s probably stem from the fact that at least a couple of his brothers were dead ringers for Butch, and passed themselves off as Butch, and were supported by various childhood friends who couldn't tell the difference.
It's like the D.B. Cooper or Zodiac Killer stories, in its way. :')
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