Volume 16 , Issue 7

NW Okie's Journey

Sometimes I wonder if and how long it will take me to get back the full use of my right arm and shoulder? I am continuing for the next couple weeks with my physical therapy for the fourth week for our post-mastectomy shoulder issues.

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Walking With Sadie

This past week has been melting a lot of our snow cover here at the north end of Vallecito Reservoir, north of Bayfield, Colorado [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid & Mysterious Etta Place

What happened to Sundance Kid's wife, Etta (Ethel) Place in her mysterious disappearance in 1907? Will the mystery ever be cleared up? Did Cassidy & Sundance Kid fake their own deaths?


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Salt Lake City, Utah, 17 May 1898

The Salt Lake Herald, dated 17 May 1898, Tuesday, reported this frontpage headline: Butch Cassidy Is Still Alive. The King of outlaws was not killed on that day in 1898, as the Wyoming sheriff examines the body and asserts positively it was not that of Cassidy. The body bore none of the marks or scars that the sheriff had seen on the outlaw. He believed it to be Bob Culp, a notorious cattle thief.

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Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch

Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch was the last of the wild west outlaws and bank robbers. Butch Cassidy was born Robert Leroy Parker on 13 April 1866, Beaver, Utah, the oldest of 13 children in a poor Mormon family. Cassidy was a teenager when he left home in the hopes of carving out a better, prosperous life.

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Harry Longabaugh (Sundance Kid)

There was a young easterner, and one of Cassidy's recruits, who was a transplanted Pennsylvanian named Harry Alonzo Longabaugh. Longabaugh fell in love with the American West through the exaggerated and often-fictional accounts in periodicals. Harry arrived in the West, and became known by the romantic sobriquet "the Sundance Kid."

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Claims of Post 1908 Survival

Wikipedia states: "Cassidy's sister Lula Parker Betenson, that Butch returned alive to the United States and lived in anonymity for years. In her biography Butch Cassidy, My Brother, Betenson cites several instances of people familiar with Cassidy who encountered him long after 1908, and she relates a detailed impromptu family reunion of Butch, their brother Mark, their father Maxi, and Lula, in 1925."

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Butch Cassidy Has A Double (3 July 1904)

According to page three of The Salt Lake Herald, dated 3 July 1904, Sunday, the headlines read: Butch Cassidy Has A Double. Edward Holton, a local gambler, was mistaken for the outlaw.

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