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Butch Cassidy and the Last Standing Bank

by | Jul 4, 2016 | Departments, True Western Towns

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Butch Cassidy, was given the name Robert Leroy Parker at birth, born to a poor Mormon family in Beaver, Utah. As a teen Parker set off to find a new and better life for himself than that of his family’s. While on his travels he met a rancher named Mike Cassidy, who was known for stealing. Parker admired Mike Cassidy and wanted to emulate his new friend and not diminish his family’s name, so he changed his own name to Butch Cassidy. Cassidy was charming and well-liked, even as a crimina


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