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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Moffat County residents celebrate season with unusual events, banquets
Moffat County's holiday past also boasts an event hosted by less reputable figures. One Thanksgiving during the 1890s, the ranching community of Brown's Park celebrated the season with a gang of robbers who took refuge in the wild countryside surrounding them, a 1977 article in The Denver Post reported. During the late nineteenth century, Brown's Park was a haven for two robber bands. Butch Cassidy led the Wild Bunch, while Harry Radenbaugh - better known as "The Sundance Kid" - came to the area with the Powder Springs Gang. Residents took a permissive view toward their neighbors' lawless activites, which included robbery and smuggling. The ranchers left the gangs to their business so long as the robbers didn't target them. "Even when a man had a price on his head, no one in the park would dare face his neighbors' scorn - or perhaps the risk of retaliation - by giving information," the Post reported. - More
Radenbaugh?
This Date in History
November 22, 1912 - Henry Wilbur "Bub" Meeks dies in Evanston, Wyoming.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Saturday, November 03, 2007
This Date in History
November 3, 1887 - The Eastbound Denver & Rio Grande passenger train robbed near Grand Junction, Colorado.
Travelpod - Bolivia
Travelpod has a post up re: Bolivia that may be of interest to Butch & Sundance enthusiasts...
We then returned to Uyuni, and visited the cleverly marketed Train Cemetery, which seemed to be just a bunch of old trains. However, the middle of nowhere location and the knowledge that these trains were held up by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made the visit worthwhile.
We left Uyuni behind, headed for Potosi, but not before another stop at a place where trains go to die. This time however, the trains were those used in the film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which was far more exciting (because movie versions of history are always better than the history itself). - More
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