Digging up Butch and Sundance (Second Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803282907 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 412 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
For seven years they chased rumors in Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, twice mortgaging their house in order to hunt down facts that had eluded police, Pinkerton detectives and historians. From Publishers Weekly After Meadows and her husband learned that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had ranched for several years in their beloved vacation stomping grounds of northern Patagonia, the couple became obsessed with pinning down the last days and deaths of the legendary 19th-century outlaws. Nothing satisfied Meadows until she and
R. J. Ames said Four Stars. good book, lots of travel time, not so much digging.. "FAILED TO GIVE THOUGHTS AND DIALOGUE" according to J Crawford. I WOULD HAVE GIVEN ANNE MEADOWS, AND DANIEL BUCK SIX STARSIF THEY WOULD HAVE PRODUCED BUTCH, AND SUNDANCE'S FINALTHOUGHTS, AND DIALOGUE.. "A fascinating tale of some unique and iconic characters!" according to Sandman. Have not finished the book yet, but it is easy reading and very informative about hard-working professional old-West bandits who were as much South-American as they were Gringos. The couple who investigated and wrote this history did a very thorough job following the complicated trail of these men and their female sidekick. I would say Butch, Sundance, and Etta, but names, for them, were pretty much temporary labels of convenience.
Lawyer-turned-writer Anne Meadows and her husband, Dan Buck, set out to solve the mystery of what really happened to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Information about William T. She updates the search with a new afterword to this edition.. With the tenacity of Pinkerton agents, the couple tracks the outlaws and the enigmatic Etta Place through South America, where they fled in 1901. Meadows and Buck rove Argentinian pampas, Chilean deserts, and Bolivian sierras; pore over faded newspapers and musty documents; exhume skeletons with the aid of forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow; unearth eyewitness accounts of Butch and Sundance’s final holdup and the Bolivian shootout; and examine letters by the bandits and interviews by the Argentine police who investigated their activities. Phillips, who claimed to be Butch Cassidy, is also included. While filling in the blanks in the Wild Bunch saga, Meadows explores the nature of truth and discovers how myths are made