In flashbacks, this novel also covers the early years of the infamous duo from the wild American West to Argentina and Bolivia. It was 1908 when two men rode into San Vicente, Bolivia, leading mules from the Aramayo Silver Mine payroll shipment that had recently been robbed. There is compelling evidence that it was not. In 1944, an accident with a giant pulley wheel caused Cassidy’s death, according to Boren and others, and that Butch was buried near the mine in an unnamed grave. Jimmy EMerson, DVM/Flickr Creative Commons/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. In the 80’s, Nevada writers Deke Low and his wife Celeste told us that Cassidy had lived and died at the Johnnie mine. They departed from there to Buenos Aires, Argentina aboard the British steamer Herminius on February 20, 1901, along with Longabaugh's companion Etta Place. Final scene from the iconic film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It was 1908 when two men rode into San Vicente, Bolivia, leading mules from the Aramayo Silver Mine payroll shipment that had recently been robbed. They settled in a four-room log cabin on a 15,000-acre (61 km ) ranch that they purchased on the east bank o… However, DNA results proved to be incompatible with either Butch or Sundance. A New York gangster turned oil baron has moved in with hired gunmen to force the local ranchers off of their land. Most historians believe that Butch and Sundance died in a shootout in San Vincente, a town in Bolivia, across Argentina’s northern border, where a … It is well known that, for obvious reasons, the notorious fugitives always used aliases when in South America. Butch's sister released a book in 1975 claiming that the outlaw had quietly moved back to the U.S. after planting stories about his death in South American newspapers, and that he'd died of old age somewhere in Washington under an assumed name in 1937. It is not clear whether they were killed by gunfire from the authorities or whether they took their own lives. Now with this new threat, he must decide whether to fight the invaders, possibly exposing his true identity, or give in to the bullying of a gang of thugs and lose his home along with the new life he has built. It is 1921 and oil production in Oklahoma is on the rise. The pair o… But, what if it was not the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy who died there that day? The authorities were notified and soon the robbers were surrounded. The bodies of Butch and Sundance have never been located. In any case, they were dead and were subsequently buried in the San Vicente graveyard. The two outlaws settled in to their quarters unaware that they had made at least two fatal mistakes that day. Then there was Butch’s sister who claimed that he visited her years after he and Sundance were supposedly killed in that remote town. Not only had the San Vicente locals been alerted by the name Cassidy, they had also recognized the mules as coming from the recently robbed payroll train. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid". Pero later recounted that after cresting a hill, he was surprised by two Yankees, whose faces were covered with bandanas and whose rifles were cocked and ready to fire. The grave turned out to contain only one body and that body was subsequently identified as a miner named Gustav Zimmer. Sundance has been living furtively, endeavoring to make a new life for himself and to leave the mistakes of his past behind. The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall (Wyoming) to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butch's long absences, have selected Harvey Logan as their new leader. Cassidy and Longabaugh fled to New York City, feeling continuous pressure from the numerous law enforcement agencies pursuing them and seeing their gang falling apart. The scene was immortalised by Hollywood in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford running out into a hail of bullets after being cornered by troops. In 1899 Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. The question is: If the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy did not die in Bolivia in 1908, what became of them? It is very unlikely that any other bodies buried there would have bullet holes in their skulls. Did Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Die In A Shoot-Out In Bolivia? Because their skulls had bullet holes in them, it was assumed that they were the bodies of the outlaws killed in San Vicente in 1908. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. It is believed they were trapped and killed by police in Bolivia in 1908, but reports vary. This Novel has also won literary awards in the Los Angeles Book Festival, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in New York City, and an award in the London Book Festival. As Carlos Pero encouraged his mule to lumber up a rugged trail high in the Andes Mountains on the morning of November 4, 1908, little did the courier for the Aramayo, Francke and Cia mining company realize that his every move was being watched. Thirteen years after he and Butch Cassidy were supposedly killed, Sundance is alive and living on an Oklahoma ranch with his wife, son and daughter. Buy The Old Gun – Finding Sundance by Randal Benjamin at Amazon and Barnes & Nobel. © Copyright 2015 | FINDING SUNDANCE | For one thing, why did they register in the San Vicente boarding house under the infamous name Cassidy? Not long ago two bodies were exhumed from the San Vicente cemetery where the outlaws were buried.