Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Origins
Chapter 2: Youth
Chapter 3: Telluride
Chapter 4: Enter Butch Cassidy
Chapter 5: Prison
Chapter 6: Robberies
Chapter 7: Enter the Sundance Kid
Chapter 8: Growth of an Outlaw Reputation
Chapter 9: Betrayal
Chapter 10: Winnemucca Bank Holdup
Chapter 11: Eastbound
Chapter 12: South America
Chapter 13: The San Vicente Incident
Chapter 14: The San Vicente Incident Revisited
Chapter 15: Exhumation
Chapter 16: Return of the Outlaw, Butch Cassidy
Chapter 17: Enter William T. Phillips
Chapter 18: What Was the Fate of Butch Cassidy?
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the Author

W.C. Jameson is the award-winning author of more than eighty books. He is the bestselling treasure author in America, and his prominence as a professional fortune hunter has led to stints as a consultant for the Unsolved Mysteries television show, the Travel Channel, and the History Channel. He lives in Llano, Texas.

Reviews

Professional treasure hunter and author Jameson (Lost Treasures of American History) is dismissive of the 'poor chronicling and unsubstantiated research' by outlaw history hobbyists. Outlaw history is not ranked high in academia, he notes, so Jameson sets out to separate fact from fiction. He traces Cassidy from his Utah boyhood to his criminal activities with the Wild Bunch and the Sundance Kid, noting erroneous perceptions generated by the popular 1969 film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Concluding chapters examine conflicting accounts of Cassidy’s 'enigmatic and controversial' final years. Was Butch Cassidy killed in a shootout in Bolivia in 1908, as tradition has it? Or did he return to the U.S. alive to visit family and friends? Some think Cassidy returned with the identity of William T. Phillips—'Could it be only a coincidence that Phillips looked amazingly like Cassidy?' and appeared from nowhere around the time Cassidy allegedly died? Phillips died in 1937, leaving behind 'The Bandit Invincible,' a manuscript filled with little known facts about Cassidy. Many readers will find themselves transfixed by Jameson’s probing discussion of this intriguing mystery, which he calls 'a historical conundrum.'
*Publishers Weekly*

By most accounts, Butch Cassidy (born Robert LeRoy Parker) was an affable, charming rogue who rustled cattle and robbed banks and trains with a smile. Perhaps that explains why many refuse to accept his ignominious end—shot to pieces by Bolivian troops in a grubby mining town. Jameson, an award-winning author and contributor to the History Channel, is determined to cast doubt on that unsavory demise. Much of this compact work is a useful and conventional biography of Cassidy. Jameson describes his young life as the oldest child of devout Mormon parents, growing up poor in Utah. He seems to have drifted slowly into a life of crime as he moved from various ranching jobs across Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. Jameson describes his partnership with the Sundance Kid as a mating of opposites who shared and enjoyed each other’s restless spirits.
*Booklist*

. . . [M]eticulously researched, and the author’s love of the subject matter comes through clearly. Reading Butch Cassidy: Beyond the Grave is like reading a really good mystery.
*Deseret News*