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Show Baker Book Good Reference To Wild Days in Area's Past Imagine an outlaw gang that included Butch Cassidy. The Sundance Kid, Gun Play-Maxwell, Play-Maxwell, Elzy Lay and Peep O'Day. A group like this known as The Wild Bunch and specializing in cattle rustling, rust-ling, horse-stealing, bank and train robberies actually existed around the .turn of the century. The story of these famous desperadoes and their escapades is told by Pearl Baker in "The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost" which will be published by Abelard-Schuman on December Decem-ber 3. ($6.95, illustrated with photos). Today the Wild Bunch belongs be-longs to the lively lore of the Old West, but in their heyday hey-day they were infamous outlaws out-laws who hit and ran, roamed roam-ed throughout Wyoming, Montant, Colorado and Arizona Ari-zona and hid out between crimes in an impenetrable part of eastern Utah called "Robbers Roost." Pearl Baker's family ranch where she was taken when she was 2 years old, was right in the heart of Robbers Roost country. In fact, the Roost was part of the ranch and the wild bunch had departed de-parted only a short time before be-fore as the west became more and more civilized. Since her childhood, Mrs. Baker Ba-ker has been fascinated by the legend of the Wild Bunch and the firsthand stories of their outrageous exploits that neighbors used to tell. In addition to including many of these stories in her book, Mrs. Baker has added new material gleaned from her own search. For example the most famous member of the Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy Cas-sidy arid The Sundance Kid, had to flee to South America to avoid capture. Here, according ac-cording to tradition, both were killed. However, Pearl Baker has uncovered new evidence ev-idence that indicates that ons of the dead men was wrongly wrong-ly ' identified as Cassidy. In reality, he quietly slipped back into the States and died here many years later. As a collection of authentic' Anr C-ericana, C-ericana, this book is an ex-citing ex-citing addition to the lore and history of the Wild West and is available at area book stores or from the author at !' her address in Green River, ' |