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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

Butch Cassidy: A Biography. By Richard Patterson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvi, 362 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8032-8756-9.)

Outlaw antiquarianism has arrived. Building on the work of previous "Wild Bunch" historians, Richard Patterson offers a recapitulation of the life of Butch Cassidy, who committed a number of robberies in the American West between 1889 and 1901. With excruciating detail, Patterson follows every path taken by Cassidy and his gang, carefully considering alternative routes the crooks may have taken as they fled the scene of the crime, exploring the many names under which Cassidy's associates operated, listing every farm and ranch that claimed to have served as a hideout for the noted outlaw, documenting nearly everyone Cassidy met along the way, and presenting the menus for notable feasts. Patterson devotes many pages to the stories, generally contradictory, of Cassidy's survival after the final shootout in San Vicente, Bolivia, though without reaching any conclusions as to the accuracy of those tales. Likewise the author spends a great deal of time discussing the possible origins of the Sundance Kid's lover, Etta Place, without resolution or justification. . . .

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