Butch Cassidy was tired of the outlaw trail. So in 1899, he tried to cut a deal to gain his freedom. The details are cloudy, but it appears that he approached the governor of Utah and officials of the Union Pacific railroad. All seemed interested in working something out, but they needed assurances. One story says Butch was supposed to meet UP leaders in October 1899, but they were delayed by weather and Cassidy angrily left before they got there. Nothing came of it—Wild Bunch robberies

June 2015
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- The Cowboys Lament: The Kansas Origin of a Western Classic
- Lawman Tom Carson
- Bat Masterson
- Steinbeck’s Trail
- Temple Houston
- Stagecoach Stations
- Where Magic Meets the West: The Para-Western
- Henry Wheeler’s Rifle
- The “First Lady” of Phoenix
- The Faults Do Not Matter
- Lola Montez
- Flyover No More: The Heart of the West is in Emporia, Kansas
- Battle of The Little Bighorn Reenactment
- Wyatt Earp in Ellsworth
- The Female Buffalo Soldier
- Stagecoach Travel
- Billy’s Backyard Breakout Billy the Kid vs Peppin’s Posse
- Frank Hamer
- Kill the Steer to Prove the Point
- Nate Champion
- The Searchers: Seeking Cinema History in Monument Valley
- Endicott Peabody
- The “Goose Question”
- There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills
- Jerome Fire
- The Lie of Villa’s Last Words
- Summer Reading: Give Your Heart to a Classic
- A Hard End
- Texas Rising, the Alamo, Davey Crockett and John Wayne
- Nellie Cashman
- Vinegar Pie
- Go West, Young Man?
- Country Star Marty Stuart Honors the Duke and the Lakota
- Pink Higgins
- Dry Kansas!
- Butch Cassidy Wants Out
- A Homecoming for the Duke in Winterset, Iowa
- Kit Carson: History and the Myth
- Wild Wilcox Robbery
- Bricks of Earth
- Bitter Creek Newcomb and Charley Pierce
- Charles Hopkins’ Rampage
- Legends & Lies, Icons, Billy the Kid and Saguaros
- Winged Victory
- Doing the “Unthinkable”
- Combating a Prairie Fire
- Memorial Day in the City of Angels
- Life in the Wyoming Territorial Prison
- Ray Simpson and the McCarty Gang
- Cold Beer? Whiskey? How about a Hooper Spring Soda Water!
- They Went Thataway
- An Axe of War
- The Bitter Truth
- Inside Straight
- The Biggest Buffalo Buff
- War Under the Mountain
- The Outlaw Trail
- The Greatest of Confidence Men
- I know British soldiers wore pith helmets in Africa and India, but why did Mexican Revolution Gen. Pancho Villa wear one?
- Early Kicks Motoring West
- June 2015 Events
- Win Blevins
- Did Clay Allison get in a gunfight with Deputy Sheriff Charles Faber?
- Crook’s Western Destiny
- In the 1980 movie Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Horn has a run-in with heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan. Did that truly happen?
- How many horses have been injured during filming of Hollywood Westerns?
- Was the Apache Kid never caught?
- Author Bill Brooks Shares His Love of Great Westerns
- White Comanche
- Rough Drafts 6/15
- What is the legend of El Tiradito?
- On the Trail of the American Buckaroo
- An Alamo Legend for All Generations
- Old West CSI
- Esther Ross