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Show Sun Advocate GC Wednesday, December 14, 1003 Legends of the Old West ' 'untrue still but enjoyed LOGAN, Utah (AP) The Old West legends of Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok and Butch Cassidy, though discredited by a century of scrutiny, still strike a chord in Americas heart. The Old West is no longer a place its an image, says John Stewart, cofounder of the National Association and Center for Outlaw and The Old longer a place an image.' Lawman - it's John Stewart History. People like to cling to an image. Even though the Old West legends are often untrue, they can continue to enjoy that illusion, said Stewart, a Utah State University history professor. The frontier legends popularized in dime novels portray a battle between that is good and evil, Western-stylstill being recycled today, he said. Butch Cassidy and Jesse James and others like them became popular folk heroes not just because of the ex- a dusty street in a Western town and not riding the faithful horse, but on fields of stars in trusty spaceships. Its really the basic good guys versus the bad guys theme, combining the basic appeal of the Old West with the gimmicks of science fiction, Stewart said. Keeping alive frontier legends is one of the goals of Stewarts association, even though its own research often peels away layers of fiction surrounding frontier heroes to reveal a gallery of rogues. Based at the University of Wyoming since budget cuts forced it from USU, the association serves as a national archive for Western Americana literature and memorabilia. Among its 600 members are actor Robert who portrayed the Sundance Kid on film, Western novelist E.B. Mann and Pinkerton Senior Vice President William Linn. Legends are just that. Theres been such superficial nonsense published in e, citement of robberies, but because people vicariously, through them, could get vengeance on the railroads and the banks and other institutions that took advantage of the little guy, Stewart said. Perhaps some of that has sferred to modern living, he Theres a lot of empathy for the guy where society has become West is no tran- said. little hard Red-for- and cold. Today, instead of gunslingers in black hats being dropped at high noon d heroes with faster by modern Star Wars trigger fingers, heroes shoot it out with lasers not on white-Stetsone- d, the last few years, he said. Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok? Those two guys not the were just a couple of bums great Western heroes they are thought to have been. Research shows Hickok had trouble holding a job and developed a penchant for gunning people down, outlaws and innocents alike, before being shot to the frontier death himself in a saloon establishment he seemed to love the most. Earp is revealed as a chronic liar when it came to his supposed exploits, and some researchers wonder if the famous Shootout at the O.K. Corral was an equal gunfight pitting the law or mass against the Daltons murder by the Earps, Stewart said. The popular story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which had the outlaw duo slain in a dramatic, heroic shootout in South America, is likely untrue as well. The truth is, in the past few years several writers have totally refuted that story. It seems Butch died in 1938 in the Pacific Northwest after having worked in the Spokane, Wash., area under an alias, Stewart said. But the value of Old West lore comes not in its accuracy, he said, but perhaps in its optimistic ideal of how things should be. I think there is some inherent value in the soil and we associate that with the West ... the challenge of moving into unsettled areas, Stewart said. 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