Butch Cassidy: The Wyoming Years
Glendo, WY: High Plains Press, 2020. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 188pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Red paper over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. New / New. Item #59030
ISBN: 9781937147211
From Publisher: Author Bill Betenson grew up hearing family stories around the campfire about his famous uncle Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as the outlaw Butch Cassidy. Betenson has spent decades asking questions about the life and exploits of Butch Cassidy. He presents new details, raises questions, challenges old assumptions, and presents informed interpretations. For this book, the author focuses his attention on the time Butch Cassidy spent in Wyoming, starting in 1889 when he hightailed it north to Wyoming after robbing his first bank. The book details Butch’s escapades, rustling and robberies, capture, trials, and imprisonment until his pardon in 1896. It follows Butch to the Southwest where he was the mastermind behind other Wyoming robberies before he set sail for Argentina with the Sundance Kid and Etta Place. Some believe Butch returned to Wyoming to visit with old friends beginning around 1925. The Old West stories that hold our attention the longest, even decades after the facts, are those with unanswered questions. Butch Cassidy’s story is full of contradictions, aliases, and mysteries. It’s also filled with fascinating men and women who lived in a very different rough-and-tumble world. Betenson has tracked down old accounts, descendants of Butch’s cohorts, records from dusty courthouses, and seldom seen photographs. He’s traveled all over the West and visited Argentina to stand in the doorway of the cabin where Butch, Sundance, and Etta lived. Now he turns his considerable mastery to Butch’s Wyoming days, perhaps the most engrossing period of a captivating life. This book was simultaneously released in two editions. A limited edition of only 500 copies was casebound, covered in Crimson Rainbow A Antique cloth with headbands of Tesseroni Red and Kateroo Gold, embossed with gold satin foil and wrapped in a full-color dust jacket. Each copy is numbered and signed by the author.
Price: $35.00