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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Santa Clara Man Reflects on Cassidy Legend
Many mysteries surround the death of the legendary Robert LeRoy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy. Though historical common belief has it that Cassidy died in South America in the early 1900s, many residents of his hometown of Circleville, Utah, claimed Cassidy sightings long after his supposed 1908 death. Santa Clara resident Donald Whittaker, who hails from Circleville, worked as a cowhand for Cassidy's youngest brother, Ebenezer Parker. Whittaker said Cassidy's family kept mum about the infamous outlaw's whereabouts in those days, but he believes Cassidy did, in fact, return to the United States after his alleged double-suicide with partner-in-crime Harry Longabaugh, aka the Sundance Kid. - Read more at the Hurricane Valley Journal
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