Digging Up Butch and Sundance

by Anne Meadows
Category: "Travel"
Pages:361
Year of Publication:1994
Date Added:12/14/2018
Date Read:11/30/2019
Notes:The author and her husband spend several years exploring Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia, looking for physical and documentary evidence of the activities of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They find their old cabin in Argentina, where they cattle ranched and tried to go straight. They explore their final days, when they held up a mule train taking pay to miners in the mountains of Bolivia, and their deaths in the small town of San Vincente. The dig up the supposed grave and find a skeleton that fits Sundance, but they can't definitively prove it was him. But the documents they do find convince them that the bandits did die in San Vincente and didn't live to return to the states as is often believed.
My Rating: 6

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Review - Digging Up Butch and Sundance

This should have been more boring than it was. The author included every tiny bit of information they dug up, whether it led to the final answer or not. She added quite a bit about her own travels around the continent, which were actually interesting although off-topic. I was often unsure of where they were or what part of the bandits' lives they were investigating, but it kept me reading.
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