Butch Cassidy is dead. William T. Phillips is dead. Yet the legend that the two men were one and the same still has not given up the ghost, despite loads of evidence to the contrary. The most recent reincarnation came last summer, when a Utah book dealer announced he had a manuscript of The Bandit Invincible, Phillips’ autobiography that detailed his alleged life as Butch. A Salt Lake City newspaper ran the story, and the Associated Press sent its version around the world. Media outlet
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