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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
ebay: Butch Cassidy Bed & Breakfast
ebay has an auction up for the Butch Cassidy Bed & Breakfast. Located in Vernal, Utah the six bedroom, 5000 square foot home is going for $549,000.
On a side note, the auction appears to be placed by the creator of the "Ride the Outlaw Trail" board game.
Ride the Outlaw Trail Board Game
Don't just read history...be history.
"This is a game concept that has never been done before. Everything you do is actual history based on Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch as it was then, so it is here. Those Outlaws never knew if they would live to pull another robbery. Of course history tells us who did survive. Luck of the roll and the draw of a card decide the fate of each player in this game, much as for those ol’ outlaws."
Ride the Outlaw Trail Board Game
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Butch & Sundance...the play?
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid died not in a gunbattle with soldiers but in a suicide pact, according to a new play based on police archives from the Bolivian mining town where the legendary American outlaws met their end. " - The Washington Times
The Big Muddy Badlands
There isn't a lot in Coronach (pop. 822), 10 kilometres north of the American border. For a visitor, the second most interesting thing might be the mural at the visitor centre. It tells how the Canadian Pacific Railway put a line through here in 1926 and named the station after the horse that won the Epsom Derby that year.
The first most interesting thing might be Tillie Duncan. Duncan, born a year after the CPR came, leads tours into the Big Muddy badlands, showing people where bandits, including the Sundance Kid, used to hole-up a century or more ago. - Langley Times
A Visit to Circleville, Utah
Lee Benson of the Deseret News is bicycling across Utah, posting articles as he travels. One of the more recent articles has the writer stopping in Circleville, Utah...
The house where Butch Cassidy was raised is unmarked.
And so, if you believe the locals, is his grave.
I arrived at the Circleville city limits early on a morning washed clean by thunderstorms the night before. As a rooster crowed nearby, I pulled into the parking lot of Butch Cassidy's Hideout Cafe, where the eggs were already cooking inside. I asked a friendly teenage waitress named Ashley the obvious.
"So where's Butch's place?" - Click here for the rest of the article.
This Date in History
July 25, 1901 - Harvey Logan kills rancher Jim Winters in Landusky, Montana.
Monday, July 24, 2006
This Date in History
July 24, 1899 - Sam Ketchum dies of blood poisoning in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
This Date in History
July 20, 1899 - William T. Phillips dies of stomach cancer in Spokane, Washington.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Deputy Jesse Tyler
Grand County Sheriff Jesse Tyler was shot and killed on May 26, 1900 by "Kid Curry" Harvey Logan not quite two months after the Sheriff killed "Flatnose" George Currie.
Sheriff Tyler and Deputy Samuel Jenkins were shot and killed in a shootout with the outlaw known as Kid Curry.
Kid Curry was suspected of being involved with the murders of five law enforcement officers: Sheriff Josiah Hazen of the Converse County Sheriff's Department, Wyoming; Deputy Samuel Jenkins and Sheriff Jesse Tyler of the Grand County Sheriff's Department, Utah; and Patrolman Robert Saylor and Patrolman William Dinwiddie of the Knoxville Police Department, Tennessee. - via the Utah Peace Officer Association
This Date in History
July 15, 1894 - Butch Cassidy enters the Wyoming State Penitentiary as prisoner #187.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Brown's Park
Flickr member Rocky Pix has some great photo's of the Brown's Park, Utah area on his photostream, you can check them out here.
Monday, July 10, 2006
The Bandit Invincible
If anyone is interested in reading The Bandit Invincible by William T. Phillips, the Marriott Library (University of Utah) has the entire copy of the book online. You can read it by clicking here.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Butch Cassidy in Sandpoint, Idaho?
Catherine from Sandpoint, Idaho has a request....
"I read in a book or a pamphlet at the Sandpoint library that Butch Cassidy spent one summer working on the Pack River just north of Sandpoint, Idaho. (Sandpoint is in Northern Idaho)
The book, if I remember right, was one man's personal remembrances of living in Northern Idaho."
If you have any information that can help her out, head on over to the Message Board and drop a line.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Wanted
Dead or Alive
Originally uploaded by m/a/z/e & Molliwogg.
This Date in History
July 4, 1894 - Butch Cassidy is found guilty of horse theft and sentenced to two years in the Wyoming State Penitentiary.
Monday, July 03, 2006
This Date in History
July 3, 1901 - Great Northern train robbed near Wagner, Montana by Harvey Logan, Ben Kilpatrick and O.C. Hanks.
July 3, 1902 - Chicago Rock Island Express robbed near Dupont, Illinois.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
This Date in History
July 1, 1884 - Allan Pinkerton dies in Chicago, IL.
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