Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Patagonia

Mythical characters

Robert Parker and Harry Longabaugh, better known by their outlaw names: Buch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, along with Etta Place arrived in 1902 and bought a ranch in the Tigre river near Cholila. The money came from the great train robbery 1901.

The investigators of Pinkerton North American agency followed them to Cholila. Then they sold the ranch and changed their identities to common Wales names of the region. They hide together in another ranch near Pico River.

The "Wild Bunch", as they were called then, did not take long before robbing the local post office killing the owners. And the legend says that the flight ended in Bolivia, where they were finally killed.

Butch Cassidy

Another story affirms that they moved to Chile crossing the mountain range with the aid of a n experienced guide. Histories that are heard in Pico have a different ending: an old iron cross in a distant hill kilometers from the town, with their names carved in it seems to suggest that Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid did not die in Bolivia.

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