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Originally Posted by WPOZZZ
I watched it on Amazon Prime. I guess I was a little off on the passage of time. Butch looked about 70, and I thought he was in his 20s when he disappeared. lol
Btw, I liked the Young Guns movies, too.
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The subject of whether or not Butch and Sundance met their ends in Bolivia in 1908 is a topic for it's own Thread.
Several things are for their end being in Bolivia in 1908 are. First they were known to have been in the vicinity of the robbery and little town where they were reported to have shot it out.
Secondly nothing was ever heard of either of them after their supposed death. Being as notorious and career criminals it is hard to believe that they just disappeared?
It could be that only Sundance was involved in the robbery and shoot out? That Cassidy returned on his own?
The evidence for not meeting their end in Bolivia and returning is all of the people who knew them reporting that they had seen at least Butch in the 1920's and 30's. Those people include one of his sisters who before she died in 1980 publicly said that she had seen him. Ezra Lay, one of the members of the Bunch who went straight after being in prison said that they had a reunion. That is not to mention numerous other people who claimed to have visited with him.
So what happened to Sundance? A short monograph was published in the 1980's that claimed SUndance settled in a small town in Nevada where in 1940 being an old man killed somebody but before being brought to trial passed away. The claim was that there were a lot of similarities between Sundance and the old man. Birds do not change their feathers?
The other piece of evidence is that even after trying to locate the bodies of the robbers who died in Bolivia by digging in the cemetery where they were reported to have died nothing was found
So was it "them" who ended up in the fatal shoot out in Bolivia? One author claimed that being experienced outlaws that it would be unlikely that they would have put themselves in position where they could be trapped? It was a rookie move.
So it remains an enigma. What would you like to believe? I would like to think that they returned and disappeared into history. I think the testimony of the sister and other acquaintances holds weight. Butch was certainly cunning and smart enough to have pulled it off.
So they took the opportunity of their reported deaths to remain dead.