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Sunday, May 04, 2008
Butch Cassidy's mystique enhances jaunt across Utah
''Most of what follows is true.'' That's the opening of ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,'' the 1969 movie about two bandits born as the sun was setting on the old Wild West.
Morally ambiguous, the movie struck a chord with Vietnam War-era audiences who stood and cheered when Paul Newman as Butch and Robert Redford as Sundance met a hail of bullets in a Bolivian town, etching the final frame onto my 15-year-old heart.
The movie wrote something else there as well: a love of Western scenery, which I rediscovered on a March trip to Southern Utah.
With five national parks, Utah's grand scenery is unrivaled in North America. It's also where Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, was born in 1866. - The Salt Lake Tribune
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