Part 1 of 2 - Butch Cassidy

09/15/21 • 52 min

Butch Cassidy, born Robert LeRoy Parker, was an American outlaw and foremost member of the Wild Bunch, a collection of bank and train robbers who ranged through the western United States in the 1880s and ’90s. By 1900, sheriff posses and Pinkerton detectives were capturing or closing in on members of the Wild Bunch. Cassidy escaped first to New York City and then to South America in 1901. From 1902 to 1906 he owned and ran a ranch in Argentina, but thereafter they returned to outlawry. Drifting from country to country, he robbed banks, trains, and mine stations until 1909, when, according to Pinkerton agents, he was trapped by a group of mounted soldiers in Bolivia, where he supposedly shot himself. Another story puts their death in Mercedes, Uruguay, in December 1911, cut down by soldiers during a bank robbery. Still other stories have Cassidy returning to the United States, drifting about from Mexico to Alaska, and dying in obscurity in 1937 in the Northwest or in Nevada (possibly Spokane, Washington, or Johnny, Nevada).

Previous Episode

The Real Billy the Kid AKA Brushy Bill Roberts - Interview w/ Author Brett L. Hall

History reports that Billy the Kid was killed in 1881. In 1950, a mysterious man known as Brushy Bill Roberts, confessed that he was the real Billy the Kid and petitioned the governor of New Mexico for a pardon for crimes committed under that name. This episode is with the author named Brett L. Hall, who wrote a research documentary book of William "Brushy Bill" Roberts' claim. It documents Roberts' story and investigates it word for word. This book is the story of Brushy Bill Roberts, and you're going to interested in what he has to say.
You can pick up his book anywhere! https://www.amazon.ae/Real-Billy-Brushy-Bill-Roberts/dp/1257177133

Next Episode

Part 2 of 2 - Butch Cassidy

Butch Cassidy, born Robert LeRoy Parker, was an American outlaw and foremost member of the Wild Bunch, a collection of bank and train robbers who ranged through the western United States in the 1880s and ’90s. By 1900, sheriff posses and Pinkerton detectives were capturing or closing in on members of the Wild Bunch. Cassidy escaped, first to New York City and then to South America in 1901. From 1902 to 1906 he owned and ran a ranch in Argentina, but thereafter they returned to outlawry. Drifting from country to country, he robbed banks, trains, and mine stations until 1909, when, according to Pinkerton agents, he was trapped by a group of mounted soldiers in Bolivia, where he supposedly shot himself. Another story puts their death in Mercedes, Uruguay, in December 1911, cut down by soldiers during a bank robbery. Still other stories have Cassidy returning to the United States, drifting about from Mexico to Alaska, and dying in obscurity in 1937 in the Northwest or in Nevada (possibly Spokane, Washington, or Johnny, Nevada).