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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238796682008-07-26T22:58:47.738-07:00Wild Bunch Blogm/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-40728769633719862492008-07-26T22:57:00.000-07:002008-07-26T22:58:47.836-07:00WILD WEST LIVES ON AT BUTCH CASSIDY DAYS

July 24-26 visitors to Montpelier, Idaho have the chance to re-live the wild Wild West. In 1896 Butch Cassidy and two other men, Bub Meeks and Elzy Lay robbed the Montpelier Bank. Citizens of Montpelier have used this event to re-create a bit of the old west every third weekend in July. This year's celebration will be filled with food, activities and entertainment. Festivities start Thursday

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4 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Fort Worth The legend: After robbing a bank in Nevada, outlaw Butch Cassidy and his "Wild Bunch" came to Fort Worth in 1900. On a post-robbery high, they celebrated their success with some fancy new clothes, then had their picture taken at a local studio. As the story goes, the gang liked the photo so much, they ordered 50 copies. Then, in a moment of

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-59826324626379688502008-06-29T21:25:00.000-07:002008-06-29T21:30:06.400-07:00San Miguel Valley Bank

This came over Google Alerts. Click the link for pictures and more. This little plaque is located in Telluride on the Mahr Building. This was the site of the original San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, which Butch Cassidy and three others robbed on June 24, 1889. The old bank burned and was replaced by the Mahr Building in 1892. The San Miguel Valley Bank was located at the corner of Pine and

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-2319464265910057742008-05-28T17:28:00.001-07:002008-05-28T17:31:06.364-07:00The Wild Bunch....in Wax

The House of Wax blog (located here) has a great post up of the Winchester Mystery House's wax museum version of the infamous "Fort Worth Five" photograph. Pretty cool. Tags: Wax Museum, Fort Worth Five

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-77460010100168856642008-05-27T17:34:00.000-07:002008-05-27T17:35:33.405-07:00In southern Utah, stories of the affable robber Butch Cassidy live on

"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 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

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-84854443433452706412008-05-18T21:17:00.000-07:002008-05-18T21:27:51.680-07:00A Pair of Cassidy Articles

An Encounter With Butch Cassidy and His Gang The history of the settlement of the West is full of names like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, and Miles Goodyear. History tells one story about them and legend often quite another. In his book, "The Forgotten Founders," Stewart Udall is at some pains to show that the West was settled by "wagon people who came, camped, settled and stayed," people who were

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-56963410137312310402008-05-04T19:45:00.000-07:002008-05-04T19:46:58.861-07:00Butch 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

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-54180666966627631532008-05-03T00:24:00.001-07:002008-05-03T00:25:59.562-07:00Trail of the Golden Death

Click on image for larger view.

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-79850193988339247852008-04-27T10:20:00.001-07:002008-04-27T10:22:29.386-07:00Blazing Six-Guns

Click on the picture for larger view Tags: Sundance Kid, comic, comic book

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-56298400979604302462008-04-26T14:55:00.000-07:002008-04-26T14:57:47.121-07:00Butch Cassidy Comic

Found a couple Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid comics on ebay the other day. I'll be posting the images over the next couple of days. Click on the picture for the larger version. Tags: Butch Cassidy, comic book, pop culture

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-62011810142932178192008-03-17T18:28:00.000-07:002008-03-17T18:35:09.981-07:00Butch Cassidy's Surrender Offer

I don't have a lot of new stuff to post - mainly watching the feeds for new articles on the Wild Bunch, and posting This Day in History segments. I'm going to try and get down to the library and dig up some more articles for the Print Archive, but until then, I thought I would start pointing you to various articles on the web that I found interesting. I'm thinking of opening up the blog to

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-33619178978153884632008-03-09T15:39:00.000-07:002008-03-09T15:41:20.227-07:00Tom McCarty

The Oregonian - my hometown newspaper - has an article up about a couple searching for Tom McCarty's burial plot. It's an interesting read. He was "wanted dead or alive" longer than any other frontier-era outlaw. He was a mentor to Butch Cassidy. And he committed one of the boldest one-man bank holdups of the Old West. Oregon badman Tom McCarty is nearly forgotten today. But in 1899, the New

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-85159417762559613332008-02-19T07:30:00.000-08:002008-02-19T07:30:45.129-08:00New York Times 09.20.1900

BANDITS ROB NEVADA BANK First National at Winnemucca Entered in the Daytime and $13,000 Taken. WINNEMUCCA, Nev., Sept. 19 - The First National Bank was robbed of about $13,000 at noon to-day by three men, who entered the front door of the building, and with revolvers made all present throw up their hands. There were five people in the bank at the time, Cashier Nixon, Assistant Cashier McBride,

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-45817356574537488932008-02-18T13:39:00.001-08:002008-02-18T13:39:09.903-08:00Butch Cassidy's

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-83468166699118785512008-02-18T06:37:00.001-08:002008-02-18T06:37:03.606-08:00Historical Marker

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-89444037658166840862008-02-17T11:24:00.001-08:002008-02-17T11:24:30.702-08:00Robbed by the Wild Bunch

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Robbed by the Wild Bunch, originally uploaded by m/a/z/e & Molliwogg. Plaque on the sidewalk outside the former First National Bank of Winnemucca.

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-87454888152039145952008-02-16T21:37:00.001-08:002008-02-16T21:37:46.238-08:00Formerly The First National Bank of Winnemucca

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Formerly The First National Bank of Winnemucca, originally uploaded by m/a/z/e & Molliwogg. Took a day trip out to Winnemucca, Nevada today and shot some pics of the old First National Bank of Winnemucca building - robbed in

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-79147197633872772752008-02-14T21:26:00.000-08:002008-02-14T21:33:13.215-08:00New Article

A reader sent in this article from the Anaconda Standard out of Montana, circa 04.18.1902. While resisting arrest at the resort of Flo Williams on Nueva street at 2:30 o'clock this morning, an unknown man was shot and killed by Police Officer Pink Taylor. He was struck by three bullets, either of which would have proven fatal. Taylor and two other officers had gone to the place to arrest the

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-48925473908976383212008-01-10T21:32:00.000-08:002008-01-10T21:34:29.885-08:00This Date in History

January 10, 1906 - Elzy Lay pardoned by New Mexico governor Miguel Antonio Otero. Tags: This Date in History, Elzy Lay

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-34384308444162548852008-01-05T21:18:00.000-08:002008-01-05T21:19:47.854-08:00This Date in History

January 5, 1874 - Ben Kilpatrick, aka the Tall Texan, born in Coleman, Texas. Tags: Ben Kilpatrick, The Tall Texan, This date in history

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-76513931319851316162007-12-27T19:20:00.000-08:002007-12-27T19:24:30.614-08:00Montpelier

Waymarking has some pictures up of Montpelier, Idaho - specifically some of the historical markers and a great shot of the old Bank of Montpelier, now a copy shop. Check it out. Tags: Montpelier, Bank of Montpelier, Butch Cassidy, Wild Bunch

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-13160507697321673672007-12-11T20:14:00.000-08:002007-12-11T20:21:45.117-08:00The Wild Bunch

The following is partial text of an article sent in by Mike Bell - thanks again Mike and sorry about my tardiness. Jerry Nickle - webmaster of The Sundance Kid & Henry Long - recently sent in another new article that I hope to have transcribed sometime next week. Thanks again to both, and if anyone out there reading this has access to any articles not found on this website, by all means send them

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-38382667676138512612007-12-08T09:56:00.000-08:002007-12-08T09:57:44.397-08:00Update

As I'm still operating according to my "three weeks late on everything" schedule, I'll have a long overdue article posted by the end of the weekend courtesy of Mike Bell. Thanks again Mike.

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-41946354291799396412007-12-08T09:49:00.000-08:002007-12-08T09:52:37.702-08:00Red Desert Rarity

In southwest Wyoming's Sweetwater County, turn south off the blacktop of I-80, navigate the web of dirt roads for a few hours and you'll find it: Adobe Town, with its thousand-foot cliffs, mazes of jagged walls and pinnacles, and cathedrals of stone complete with flying buttresses. The 180,910-acre swath was once home to inhabitants ranging from eight-foot-tall giant ground sloths to Native

m/a/z/ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00126972104422295531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23879668.post-10431287728230213222007-11-22T19:28:00.000-08:002007-11-22T19:32:00.748-08:00Moffat 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

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