Bogus Butches

The Internet auction service, eBay, is a hothouse of Butch and Sundance photographs. Images turn up on eBay with little more provenance than “You be the judge” or “I’ve been told it looks like Butch.” If the unidentified man wears a bowler hat, so much the better. One recent offering claimed to depict a 30-something Butch in 1879, when he was but 13. Long before the Internet, outlaw historians were publishing dubious photos of Butch and Sundance, because there are so few legitimate