I cross-posted the August 24th entry regarding Annals of the Former World from this blog to Inland History Northwest (home of the never-ending catfight). I got this response from Dan Buck that I thought was pretty interesting.
"m/a/z/e, an April 1970 monograph written by W.L. Marion has a different version of Dr. Smith meeting Butch in Lander: "[Butch Cassidy] visited Evanston, where he had many friends and finally in 1933 he went to Lander. The late Doctor W.F. Smith saw Charley Stough, former sheriff and now County Commissioner, talking to a man in the bar of the Noble Hotel. Doc Smith had followed the career of Butch Cassidy and was thunder-struck when he saw the man Stough was talking to. When Charley came out, Doc Smith stopped him and askedd, 'Charley, could that have been Butch Cassidy you were just talking to?' Stough said, 'Yes, that was Butch, he's clean.' The statute of limitations had cleared him."
Further on in the tale, Marion says Butch stayed with E.J. Farlow at his ranch: "Farlow told the writer [Marion] that Butch took off his clothes and showed him the scars of the battle he and Longabaugh and Etta Place had with the rurales at the railroad station in Bolivia."
In a preface to the monograph, Pearl Baker said that John Broedeker had told her "that Butch had taken him and his father, Hank Boedeker, into the bathroom in 1933 and stripped and showed them the scars, at least 7, sustained in that battle."
In McPhee's version, Butch had a face-lift in Paris, which is the William T. Phillips story. The photograph of 18 men plus Butch sounds like the one published on p. 133 of Larry Pointer's IN SEARCH OF BUTCH CASSIDY. The man said to be Butch is wearing a bowler hat. (It's not Butch, but that's another matter.) Per the Charter family (as well as Pointer), the photo originally came from them. The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that Bert Charter is in the photo.
All the best,
Dan"
