Butch & Sundance—and Rolla

The old Bob Seger song claimed that Rock ‘n’ Roll never forgets. History does, all too often. Take the case of Clement Rolla Glass, who died too young and too early to parlay his connection to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Going by the name Rolla, he was born into a prominent California ranch family in 1867 and graduated with an engineering degree from the College of the Pacific in 1890. He worked for the railroads before gold fever struck him after the 1896 discovery in Alaska.