The Sundance Kid
Subtitle: the life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
By: Donna B. Ernst ; foreword by Daniel Buck and Anne Meadows ; introduction by Paul D. Ernst.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780806139821
Subjects: Sundance Kid; Outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Ranch life -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Bank robberies -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Train robberies -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Outlaws -- South America -- Biography; West (U.S.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: The film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid first brought Sundance (Harry Longabaugh) to the attention of the American public. While it was based on fact, like most Hollywood films it included just as much fiction in order to tell a good story. Now Ernst (Sundance, My Uncle) presents the results of her excavations into family records and historical archives to bring us Sundance's story from his early days in Pennsylvania to his death in Bolivia. Along the way, we meet the Wild Bunch, the Pinkertons, and Charles Woodcock, the express messenger who was held up twice by the Wild Bunch. Like most outlaws, Sundance was blamed for many more robberies than he actually committed. Ernst corrects the record, showing what Sundance did and did not do and describing his attempts to go straight. She also brings to light his activities in South America and presents convincing evidence that Butch and Sundance were killed in Bolivia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.