| Show THE LIFE STORY OF BUTCH CASSIDY in the volume OUTLAW TRAIL by charles kelly salt lake city ls is given the life story ct of butch cassidy roy parker the famous utah wyoming bandit and train robber his with mike cassidy with the mccarthy gang his first and all subsequent escapades in train holdups bank robberies anu and large deal cattle rustling his connection with our good friend matt warner butchis tragic death in south amer lea all these incidents are present ed in a well written thrilling en pertaining way presenting butch cassidy s life record and its rami tica fica eions in a richness of interest ansur passed by any other writer who has made butch the subject of his pen kelly has been years on the quest of information he has made pains taking notes of conversations from old timers he has got the story from men like matt warner who knew the real inside he has traveled ex ten over the area on the actual scenes of many of the hide outs he has taken photos and enriched his book his hols descriptive text on brown s hole on hole in the wall and the famous robbers roost Is authentic detailed and verified welding all into a tactual factual record of permanent value kelly is the first writer who es the proper emphasis on brown browns s hole as the earliest rendezvous ot of rustlers and tough nuts he plainly differentiates between hole in the wall and jackson s hole so often mixed by writers writer of bucket of blood fiction whose penny thrillers were mostly written in the upper story of an apartment house a mil es from what they were writing about in two senses we of southern utah feel that butch cassidy Is our hero a pres ent day robin hood courageous lib eral and always friendly to the poor more we feel that butch cas sidy idy is an institution in which we of this portion of utah are charter members therefore to get a true record of this man to know roy parker that was into the butch cas sidy that became and to know it tac fac dually not in snatches of loose gos sip too often blurred but with the stamp tamp of authenticity and from years of laborious inquiry search consultation Is the kind of history we want in this volume that need Is tilled filled to kelly we are indebted tor for the best life story of butch cas sidy butch s long association with matt warner whom many in various walks of life in utah know and know in ti brings matt into the book kelly talked with matt and got much first hand information then verified that recital by newspaper clippings and by talks with others who also knew much of the inside having themselves been on the fringe of the gang we of southern utah have plenty of men with us who knew roy par ker without exception not one of these acquaintances places odium on butch rather they uniformly speak kindly of him and prove it by dent after incident even when butch held up trains or banks his friends always staunchly support him by saying he never robbed the poor he mad his hauls from banks and abd railroads who themselves rob bad the soil 11 ho no hot shot tit ot butch cassidy s which actually took a life has even been recorded others in his gang killed but butch so far aa as la Is known never murdered a man until at the time of his tragic death when fighting odds of two pitted against a squad of soldiers be he took toll a liberal toll and then in mercy shot his sorely wounded corn com panion to prevent his capture and fully knowing the game was all up with hils his last remaining cartridge took his own life we feel here at delta that only one range of hills separates us from botehs s birthplace we feel that we are neighbors plenty of former Pan gultch people here knew him played with him as a boy likewise when butch was at robber robbers s boost roost near Hanks hanksville ville others who even dually migrated to delta knew butch there A few of us from wyoming knew his re rep uta tion there even it if never personally acquainted in this book all these elements are brought together rounded out into a complete pattern and the life story of the man g given V en whom if we can t exactly admire at least we don t unnecessarily condemn and kelly presents us with the best and most authentic life story of roy par pax ker the book is not the penny thriller type which spills a bucket of blo blood od on each page with glory and s P ittin six gun gunfire fire intermixed in a made up imaginative concoction the usual jejune product of 0 writers from the tar far distant east but Is presented by a writer who has lived long in utah knows its canyons and streams its hide cuts outs and above all knows many associated more or less closely with the man he writes about the book is printed by the author a copy may be had at the chronicle office for 4 50 the price of the vol ume we consider the book a per manent contribution to history it is such a book that you will enjoy reading its facts compete with tic fic tion there is plenty of thrill in the facts of butch a life and plen ty ot of action these are re deftly and interestingly woven by the author we can recommend the book to all who are interested in the wild and woolly west when six shooters were persuasive the west of only a few years ago the west of bad men quick draw men men who had ambi tion even if that ambition was to be the best known and most spectacular bandit robber of his era and who made it pay the interest of the book is not limited to us locally but it has a direct appeal to all who love the old fast disappearing west whan guns were toted and spur rowels angled jangled on board walks when cattle were rustled by cowboys who forked a horse not by refrigerator trucks on oiled highways cowboys bronco busters petty thieves bigger thieves thieves who had vision and aspired high domi doral bating well functioning eions thieves with ramifications into politics collusion with sheriffs county commissioners lawyers and merchants all these types are in kelly a book contacting and divi ing with their BIG SHOT who op aerated the gang himself the most spectacular of that element the re doubtable butch cassidy frank beckwith 1938 |
