- Paperback: 428 pages
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (15 Dec 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0803282907
- ISBN-13: 978-0803282902
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 493,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Fun and wonderfully suspenseful." Kirkus "It's hard to imagine even the most chair-bound stay-at-home not enjoying this great adventure. Tracking down these odd bandidos with Meadows is lots of fun." Tony Hillerman "What a book! Hard-traveling historians on a quest. Romance! Altitude sickness! The driest desert in the world! Potentially deadly disputes over centuries-old bones! The answer to a ninety-year-old mystery. First-class travel writing." Tim Cahill "Better than any mystery novel."oDee Brown
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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. 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. Information about William T. 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. She updates the search with a new afterword to this edition. Anne Meadows lives with her husband in Washington D.C.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I just could not stop reading this book, as just like the authors I wanted to know if a graveyard in a remote Bolivian town would reveal the last resting place of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, the 2 infamous outlaws. As you turned each page you experienced the joy of the authors finding a small piece of new evidence or the frustration and disappointment of dealing with the local bureaucracy.
The book describes the authors' search in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia for the truth about
the gunfight in San Vicente in 1908. Did Butch & Sundance take part? or were they bodies mis-identified in order for them to start a new life, free from the chasing posses. Evidence is gathered from a number of sources, local S.American newspapers, mine company records, and recollections that descendants have been told by relatives who knew Butch & Sundance.
This is an excellent book, not for people who are interested in western outlaws but for those who wish to know about people who lived and worked in a bygone era.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Anyone seriously interested in what happened to Butch & Sundance should read this as it is a well researched, serious attempt to come up with what "really happened". Unfortunately, it's too serious. It's scholarly and sober and lacks the wit, humour and romance of anything like the Old West. The book also fails to answer questions. It points out in length the mysterious disappearance of Etta who covered her tracks so well she dropped of the face of the earth, then shrugs it's shoulders as if to say "oh well" and carries on! It points out South America was packed to the rafters with Americans matching loosely the duoes description and that their families believed they escaped to live out their lives together in Colorado (having seen them after their "deaths"), then shrugs again and makes no attempt to follow this line of enquiry up! Still, it is worth a go if you soldier on past the dry prose.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Anne Meadows & Dan Buck have done more than anyone to track Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid through South America. They are leading historians on the outlaw duo's travels and escapades in South America.
This is truly a great read. It combines modern travel, western history and sleuthing. If you enjoyed the Goldman movie and want to know more about Butch & Sundance, their time, place and moment buy this book and read on...
This is truly a great read. It combines modern travel, western history and sleuthing. If you enjoyed the Goldman movie and want to know more about Butch & Sundance, their time, place and moment buy this book and read on...
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Cooked to Perfection
If it wasn't for the film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, I doubt this book would have been written. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2007 by Michael Bell
On the trail of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
I must admit that in my mind the myths around Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid were all tied up with the 1969 movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Read more
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