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Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw
By Leerhsen, Charles
- ISBN
- 9781501117480
- Publisher
- S. & S.
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Reviewed on May 15, 2020 | Social Sciences
Though most people associate outlaw Butch Cassidy with Paul Newman's performance in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Leerhsen (Ty Cobb) offers a fuller portrait in this entertaining biography of an American legend. Born in 1866 to English immigrants who had settled in Utah, Cassidy, whose given name was Robert LeRoy Parker, grew up poor and largely unsupervised: a background that impacted his outlook on survival and adve...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
