In end, no blaze of glory for Butch and Sundance

Washington Times ^ | 6-27-06 | Martin Arostegui

[JZelle]

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid died not in a gunbattle with soldiers but in a suicide pact, according to a new play based on police archives from the Bolivian mining town where the legendary American outlaws met their end.

[JZelle]

You mean the Hollywood version is inaccurate :0

[dfwgator]

Butch and Sundance were the male version of Thelma and Louise.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"You can't swim?! Hell, the fall will probably kill 'ya!"

[LIConFem]

Actually, it was a botched murder-suicide pact...

Damnit, Sundance! You were supposed to shoot ME first!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Waiting for the news, as with all historical figures per the MSM these days, that they were gay.

[dead]

They probably didn't look a lot like Paul Newman and Robert Redford either.

[Bushwacker777]

Suicide pact? They were Muslims?

[ecomcon]

Ain't that the truth.

[Legallyhere1]

Perhaps instead of going out in a blaze of glory they should have gone to MESSACHUSETTS for a marriage ceremony and lived happily after together!

[Al Gator]

There's another rumor that Butch shot Sundance, and then chickened out on himself and lived to make it back to California.

BTW, anyone seen Billy the Kid?

[CTOCS]

"Reckon you used enough dynamite, there, Butch?"

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 6/27/2006. Thanks JZelle.

Butch wrote some unknown number of letters to people back in the states. Of those which are known to have survived, not even one postdates the shootout in Bolivia on November 7, 1908. That's not a coincidence. He had a lookalike brother who (like the rest of the family) amounted to nothing, who in later years visited old friends he and "Butch" had had in common in their youth, and passed himself off as Butch.