08 September 2015

More Old West for the day


Marshall Trimble has an article in True West about Butch and Sundance:
In February of 1901, Butch Cassidy, Harry “Sundance” Longabaugh, and Ethel (known as Etta) Place headed for South America after a brief stay in New York City, where they had one last fling. Ethel and Sundance even stopped at Young’s photo gallery and had their picture taken. They took in the sights and had a good time.
The popular 1969 film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which had a lot of historical accuracy, had them going to see one of those newfangled motion pictures and they were horrified to see themselves portrayed as cold-blooded killers. Supposedly, they saw themselves gunned down on the silver screen, something that must have been unsettling. The film they were supposed to have seen was Edwin S. Porter’s Great Train Robbery (video, above), the first motion picture with a story. In reality, the film didn’t come out until 1903, long after Butch, Sundance, and Ethel had gone south to Argentina.
Rico says that history is never tidy...

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