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

July 2005
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- Death Rides a White-Faced Horse
- So-called Cattle Kate Rises from Rubbish
- More than Just a Muse
- Frontier Women at Arms
- Hollywood’s “5-in-1” Movie Blank
- More Bucks and Other Changes
- West Texas in the Daylight
- Cheyenne Breakout
- Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers
- Old West Signs
- Genuine Cowboys Captured Alive
- Under normal conditions, how fast would a stagecoach move over flat country?
- Did Wyatt and Josephine Earp have any children?
- Where can I find the graves of Johnny Ringo, Big Nose Kate, Mattie Blaylock and Commodore Perry Owens?
- In my senior year of high school, I wrote a paper on outlaws and gunmen. One was shot in the back by a Frenchman. Do you know who it was?
- Lists of Plains Indian property captured by the army in the 1860-70s often mention “crowbars.” Why would the Plains Indians, who I thought travelled light, have crowbars?
- Why do almost all the Old West characters wear handkerchiefs around their necks in TV shows and movies?
- Death Rides a White Horse