In 1969’s Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, are the characters Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore based on real people?

  In 1969’s Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, are the characters Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore based on real people? Stace Webb Wenatchee, Washington Joe LeFors was born in Paris, Texas, in 1865 and raised in the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory. He worked as a drover, freighter and mail rider. In 1895, he became a livestock inspector in Wyoming and built a reputation for recovering stolen cattle in the Hole-in-the-Wall country. He then became a U.S. deputy marshal