On November 7, 1908 in the town of San Vicente, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout with the Bolivian army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a Pinkerton detective interrupts and old- timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-- who is alive and well and sitting right in front of him. So begins a novel about the West's most legendary outlaw, as told by America's master storytellers.

"For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it."--

A history of the legendary Old West outlaw duo traces their numerous daring robberies before new technologies and advancing civilization rendered their methods ineffective, sharing insight into their flight to South America and reports about their mysterious deaths.

Uncover the real stories behind the legendary figures whose lives and exploits took center stage in the invention of the mythic Wild West in these eight documentaries.

"George LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, was an easy mark - the wiry, sixteen-year-old grandson of an upright Mormon Bishop. He was an innocent, gullible kid. Mike Cassidy was a grizzled old rustler - a bandit with schemes for daring adventures...There never were two more different men. But by the time old Mike had finished educating the wide-eyed-kid, Butch Cassidy had ridden with the Wild Bunch, the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, the Rustlers of Robbers...

Sixteen year old Roy Parker aims to find out what happened to his uncle, Butch Cassidy, and the treasure that he hid with the help of his best friend, his arch rival, and the girl who has stolen his heart. But they're not alone, as a dastardly villain is hot on their trail.

Tells the story of the famous outlaw of the 1800s, Butch Cassidy. He and his gang, the Wild Bunch, were wanted throughout the West for horse stealing, bank robbing, and blowing up trains.

Follows the life of the man who led the notorious "Wild Bunch" gang, from his youth as Robert Leroy Parker to his rise to folk-hero status with his partner, the Sundance Kid.

"Butch Cassidy's notorious Wild Bunch was the last of the great robber bands that pistol-whipped the West from the wilds of Montana to the Mexican border. Even its mortal enemy, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, acknowledged that hell-raising gang of long-riders as men "who'd rather fight than eat." It was a war to the death between the Wild Bunch and the Tin Stars, and when the gunsmoke had vanished, so had the Wild Bunch, yet epic tales of these free-booters...