June 1900 University of Oklahoma Press, Sep 1, 1988 - Biography & Autobiography - 312 pages. IN SEARCH OF BUTCH CASSIDY is a competently told, if somewhat dry, biographical narrative by a writer obsessed with his subject. Left to right, seated: Harry A. Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy. Standing- Will Carver, …
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In search of Butch Cassidy. In Search of Butch Cassidy by Larry Pointer - Hardcover - 1977 - from ThriftBooks (SKU: G080611455XI3N00) University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Butch Cassidy, byname of Robert LeRoy Parker, (born April 13, 1866, Beaver, Utah, U.S.—died 1909?, Concordia Tin Mines, near San Vicente, Bolivia? BUTCH CASSIDY The True Story of an American Outlaw By Charles Leerhsen. Historians believe that Cassidy was born to a Mormon family in Utah and was given the name Robert LeRoy Parker. In search of Butch Cassidy.
In Search of Butch Cassidy by Larry Pointer - Hardcover - 1977 - from ThriftBooks (SKU: G080611455XI3N00) University of Oklahoma Press, 1977.
Supposed family member, towns folk talk about accounts of of Butch's deception and getting away from the law. Explains the theory of Butch's death in South America. Who was Butch Cassidy? They suggest that after making it big in Bolivian train, payroll and bank robberies, Cassidy sailed to Europe, got a facelift, moved back to America, married, then became an entrepreneur in Washington. Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker) and three others rob a bank in Telluride, Colorado. "The weight of the evidence in 1977 was that this was Butch Cassidy," Pointer said.
All pages are intact, and the cover is intact.
The other theory that Butch moved back to Washington State and living to an old age is the second theory.
Maybe. But that was then. Recently, diligent scholars like Larry Pointer, who wrote In Search of Butch Cassidy, have dug up evidence showing that in all likelihood Butch Cassidy did fake his death in San Vicente, Bolivia. The Butch Cassidy episode went over Butch's life. In 1934 William T. Phillips wrote an unpublished manuscript, an (auto) biography of Butch Cassidy, “The Bandit Invincible, the Story of Butch Cassidy.” Larry Pointer, marshalling an overwhelming amount of evidence, is convinced that William T. Phillips and Butch Cassidy were the same man.
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Near the midpoint of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” director George Roy Hill’s 1969 buddy movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, the outlaws barge into the office of …
[Larry Pointer] -- Retraces the life of Butch Cassidy from his days as on outlaw and presents a case claiming that …
But that was then. In his book In Search of Butch Cassidy, Larry Pointer speculated that Phillips was actually Cassidy, based upon stories in Phillip's unpublished manuscript, The Bandit Invincible, and a resemblance between the two men.
Cassidy allegedly died in a shootout in 1908 in Bolivia with Harry "the Sundance Kid" Longabaugh. Some of the evidence … In the succeeding years, the outlaws commit several other robberies throughout the Southwestern United States. Another book, 1977's In Search of Butch Cassidy, posited that Cassidy had lived in Spokane and gone by the name William T. Phillips, though the author walked back his claims in a second book published in 2012. The spine may show signs of wear.
Larry Pointer. A quirky subgenre of narrative history has emerged in recent years that explores the lives of iconic heroes of Hollywood westerns. Parker ran off and chose a life of crime and a slew of aliases — including Butch Cassidy.
And so he wrote his theory in the book "In Search of Butch Cassidy." Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman.Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. A quirky subgenre of narrative history has emerged in recent years …
September 17, 1896 : Cassidy and the “Wild Bunch” rob a bank in Montpelier, Idaho. September 17, 1896 Cassidy and the “Wild Bunch” rob a bank in Montpelier, Idaho. Historians believe that Cassidy was born to a Mormon family in Utah and was given the name Robert LeRoy Parker. Maybe Butch Cassidy really did die desperate in the corner of a hut in San Vicente with his own revolver held to his head.
However, in 2012, Pointer obtained a copy of the Wyoming Territorial Prison mugshot of William T. Wilcox, a previously unknown associate of Cassidy. September 17, 1896 Cassidy and the “Wild Bunch” rob a bank in Montpelier, Idaho. Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang of train robbers in portrait taken in Fort Worth, Texas in 1901.
The amount of detail provided is a tribute to Pointer's investigatory labors.