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Queen of the Wild Bunch Ethel “Etta” Place and the Sundance Kid’s outlaw love affair
According to one of the many legends of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Etta Place in South America, two men and one…
A Legend is Born How a Pennsylvania Kid went West, became the Sundance Kid and joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch
The Sundance Kid, whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, is inextricably linked to the better-known Butch Cassidy,…
The End of The Line Two “Americanos” vs. A Uyuni Posse
November 6, 1908 A four-man posse from Uyuni, Bolivia, rides into the small village of San Vicente, warning a village o…
Butch & Sundance & Pike & Dutch How two films from the summer of ’69 changed Westerns forever.
Every period picture, consciously or not, reflects two periods, the time in which the story is set, and the time the fil…
The Mysterious Etta Place The enigmatic Etta Place is one of the Old West’s most enthralling mysteries.
The enigmatic Etta, (Ethel) Place is one of the Old West’s most enthralling mysteries. We know from her photo she was a …
Trailing the Wild Bunch The legendary outlaws left their mark from Wyoming to Texas.
Two of the best-known bank and train robbers of the 19th century spent time in jail and prison—for horse theft—and not a…
Tangled Webs: The Wild Bunch and Their Women
Separating fact from fiction when it came to some members of the Wild Bunch and their women got downright confusing beca…
Outgunned by a Skunk
By the early 1900s, the law was closing in on outlaws like the Wild Bunch. Modern technology such as telephones was maki…
How dangerous was Kid Curry?
Jonathan Smith Rodenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany An outlaw who rode with Robert “Butch Cassidy” Parker and Harry “Sundanc…