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    The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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    The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Written by Thom Hatch

    Narrated by James C. Lewis

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    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-as leaders of the Wild Bunch, they planned and executed the most daring bank and train robberies of the day, with a professionalism never before seen by authorities. For several years at the end of the 1890s, the two friends, along with a revolving cast who made up their band of thieves, eluded local law enforcement and bounty hunters, all while stealing from the rich bankers and eastern railroad corporations who exploited western land. The close calls were many, but Butch and Sundance always managed to escape to rob again another day-that is, until they rode headlong into the twentieth century.Fenced-in range, telephone lines, electric lights, and new crime-fighting techniques were quickly rendering obsolete the outlaws of the wide open frontier. Knowing their time was up, Butch and Sundance, along with a mysterious beauty named Etta Place, headed to South America, vowing to leave their criminal careers behind. But riding the trails of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, Butch and Sundance would find that crime wasn't through with them just yet.In The Last Outlaws, Thom Hatch brings these memorable characters to life like never before: Butch, the brains of the outfit; Sundance, the man of action; and the men on both sides of the law whom they fought with and against. From their early holdup attempts to that fateful day in Bolivia, Hatch draws on a wealth of fresh research to go beyond the myth and provide a compelling new look at these legends of the Wild West.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 5, 2013
    ISBN9781452680453
    The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    Author

    Thom Hatch

    Thom Hatch is a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and an award-winning American author and novelist who specializes in the history of the American West, the American Civil War, and the Plains Indian Wars. He is the author of twelve books, including The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Custer Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to the Life of George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indians Wars, and Black Kettle: the Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War, for which he received the Spur Award for literary excellence from the Western Writers of America. Hatch lives in Colorado with his wife and daughter.

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      A fairly well done work on the lives and associates of these celebrated outlaws. It was interesting to track how closely it followed the events portrayed in the famous movie of 1969. Many of the them matched outside of their exploits in South America. The movie focused more on their adventures in Bolivia in robbing banks and mine payroll movements. It is here where they supposedly met their demise in 1909, but to this day it is not clear what really happened and if in fact they died there. In all likelihood it seems they did. Unfortunately little was known about who Etta Place, Sundance's woman, was or what actually happened to her.They have been been portrayed throughout the years as celebrated personalities of our past but in truth they were still common criminals who could never escape their past. Likewise most that associated with them in the Wild Bunch met a similar bloody demise.