The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo LongabaughUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 2012 M10 11 - 264 pages He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid—whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh—led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaugh through marriage, Donna B. Ernst has spent more than a quarter century researching his life. She now brings to print the most thorough account ever of one of the West’s most infamous outlaws, tracing his life from his childhood in Pennsylvania to his involvement with the Wild Bunch and, in 1908, to his reputed death by gunshot in Bolivia. Combining genealogical research, access to family records, and explorations in historical archives, Ernst details the Sundance Kid’s movements to paint a complete picture of the man. She recounts his homesteading days in Colorado, offers new information on his years as a cowboy in Wyoming and Canada, and cites newly uncovered records that substantiate both his outlaw activities and his attempts at self-reform. While taking readers on the wild chase that became Longabaugh’s life, outracing posses and Pinkertons, Ernst corrects inaccuracies in the historical record. She demonstrates that he could not have participated in the Belle Fourche bank heist or the Tipton train robbery and refutes speculations that Butch and Sundance managed to escape their fate in Bolivia. The Sundance Kid is enlivened by more than three dozen photographs, including family photos never before seen. |
Contents
Chapter 1 The Wild Bunch
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Phoenixville Pennsylvania
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Chapter 3 Ranching in Cortez Colorado
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Chapter 4 The Outlaw Trail
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Chapter 5 The Suffolk Cattle Company
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Chapter 6 The N Bar N Ranch
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Chapter 7 Robbery on the Three V Ranch
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Chapter 8 The Kid Gets a New Name
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Chapter 20 Winnemuca Bank Robbery
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Chapter 21 Blackened Gold
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Chapter 22 Rendevous in Fort Worth
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Chapter 23 Tourists in New York
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Chapter 24 Going Straight in Argentina
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Chapter 25 Mistaken Identity
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Chapter 26 Cholila Home Sweet Home
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Chapter 27 On the Run Again
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Chapter 9 Telluride Bank Robbery
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Chapter 10 A Cowboy in Calgary
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Chapter 11 Train Robbery in Malta
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Chapter 12 The Little Snake River Valley
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Chapter 13 Belle Fourche Bank Robbery
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Chapter 14 Capture and Escape
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Chapter 15 Two Nevada Robberies
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Chapter 16 Wilcox Train Robbery
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Chapter 17 They Called Her Etta
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Chapter 18 Tipton Train Robbery
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Chapter 19 Three Creek Idaho
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Chapter 28 A Return to Crime
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Chapter 29 Robbery of the Aramayo Mine Payroll
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Chapter 30 San Vicente Bolivia
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Chapter 31 Who Were Those Guys?
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Appendix A Whatever Happened to Ethel
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Appendix B HangersOn and WannaBes
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Appendix C Letters and News Articles
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Notes
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Bibliography
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