Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid … Ba Expats Ca. 1901 !!!

[D.B. Cooper]

I think everybody knows the legend of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. If you've never seen the film you owe it to yourself to see it.
Rent it, buy it, download it. Filmmaking at its best. Unfortunately the movie leaves out the the time the outlaws lived in Argentina.
I think they came here to escape the Pinkerton men. They wanted to start a new life as respectable ranchers. My guess is that when
the money ran out and the ranching angle didn't pan out, they fell on old tricks. i.e. robbing banks.

According to wikipedia :

Cassidy and Longabaugh then fled east to New York City, and on February 20, 1901, with Ethel "Etta" Place, Longabaugh's female companion, they departed to Buenos Aires, Argentina, aboard the British steamer Herminius, Cassidy posing as James Ryan, Place's fictional brother. There he settled with Longabaugh and Place in a four-room log cabin on a 15,000-acre (61 km[sup]2[/sup]) ranch that they purchased on the east bank of the Rio Blanco near Cholila, Chubut province in west-central Argentina, near the Andes. On February 14, 1905, two English-speaking bandits, who may have been Cassidy and Longabaugh, held up the Banco de Tarapacá y Argentino in Río Gallegos, 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Cholila, near the Strait of Magellan. Escaping with a sum that would be worth at least US $100,000 today, the pair vanished north across the bleak Patagonian steppes.

I'm just curious if anybody ever followed their footsteps. According to Wiki The Sundance Kid & Etta Place stayed at the Europa Hotel in BA for a while.
I can just picture them in their Sunday Best strolling up & down Avenida de Mayo. I'm wondering what happened to the log cabin in Chubut they lived in. I would love to see it.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I think everybody knows the legend of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. If you've never seen the film you owe it to yourself to see it.
Rent it, buy it, download it. Filmmaking at its best. Unfortunately the movie leaves out the the time the outlaws lived in Argentina.
I think they came here to escape the Pinkerton men. They wanted to start a new life as respectable ranchers. My guess is that when
the money ran out and the ranching angle didn't pan out, they fell on old tricks. i.e. robbing banks.

According to wikipedia :

Cassidy and Longabaugh then fled east to New York City, and on February 20, 1901, with Ethel "Etta" Place, Longabaugh's female companion, they departed to Buenos Aires, Argentina, aboard the British steamer Herminius, Cassidy posing as James Ryan, Place's fictional brother. There he settled with Longabaugh and Place in a four-room log cabin on a 15,000-acre (61 km[sup]2[/sup]) ranch that they purchased on the east bank of the Rio Blanco near Cholila, Chubut province in west-central Argentina, near the Andes. On February 14, 1905, two English-speaking bandits, who may have been Cassidy and Longabaugh, held up the Banco de Tarapacá y Argentino in Río Gallegos, 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Cholila, near the Strait of Magellan. Escaping with a sum that would be worth at least US $100,000 today, the pair vanished north across the bleak Patagonian steppes.

I'm just curious if anybody ever followed their footsteps. According to Wiki The Sundance Kid & Etta Place stayed at the Europa Hotel in BA for a while.
I can just picture them in their Sunday Best strolling up & down Avenida de Mayo. I'm wondering what happened to the log cabin in Chubut they lived in. I would love to see it.

The Cholila cabin has been restored and is open to the public: http://tinyurl.com/lq487z4. Nothing of note inside it, however.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Escaping with a sum that would be worth at least US $100,000 today, the pair vanished north across the bleak Patagonian steppes.

CFK just had a good laugh reading this.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

The Cholila cabin has been restored and is open to the public: http://tinyurl.com/lq487z4. Nothing of note inside it, however.

When I click on the link it says: 404 Not Found ... (?)

 

[ajoknoblauch]

When I click on the link it says: 404 Not Found ... (?)

Try again at http://tinyurl.com/lq487z4

It works for me. There was a mistaken period included.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Try again at http://tinyurl.com/lq487z4

It works for me. There was a mistaken period included.

Thanks. I was able to open it.
The log Cabin looks pretty humble.

I was thinking more like The Ponderosa of the Bonanza TV Show.

 

[GreenLeaf]

If you go to Trelew in Chubut, and visit the confiteria at the Touring Hotel (a great place to see in itself), they have a room at the back that Cassidy allegedly stayed at. They've done it up as if he was still there and the old lady who's family own the place (her son is now running the Touring) will give you an enjoyable and animated precis of his stay! You have to ask to see the room as it isn't advertised or anything, but they'll show it to you free of charge

 

[mrporoto]

Whats with the nostalgia JW,could be Butch and Sunburnt are the reason the Banksters are robbing the shit out of people these days,getting their own back so to speak?
Argentina,still a haven for criminals,eh Crissie.

 

[camel]

I recently did a cross country flight to Patagonia in a single-engine plane (a Cessna 172). The best flight was from Esquel to Bariloche, via Cholila and El Maitén. I had previously charted the location of Butch Cassidy's ranch, and we were able to find it and fly over it. Here's the best photo I got with my iPhone:


(click to enlarge)

 

[Bajo_cero2]

CFK just had a good laugh reading this.

I do not understand you, please explain me. Did she laugh because she thought about the 4.5 billion usd Macri self forgave?