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The Conspirators Podcast

Ep. 183 - The Outlaw Trail

The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1908, news broke that the legendary outlaws known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were gunned down in a shootout in Bolivia. But is that what really happened? Almost as soon as the gunsmoke cleared, rumors began to spread that Butch and Sundance might have survived, and lived on for years after. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/butch/ https://www.amazon.com/Butch-Cassidy-Story-American-Outlaw/dp/1501117483/ref=asc_df_1501117483/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=509234950067&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10024823998848774111&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016906&hvtargid=pla-923944284217&psc=1 https://www.biography.com/news/butch-cassidy-sundance-kid-real-story https://www.grunge.com/180040/the-truth-about-butch-cassidys-death/ https://www.history.com/news/the-mysterious-deaths-of-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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On a warm summer day in 1924, a dead man drove to Wyoming.

0:25.0

He was driving a Model T. The black car filmed with dust as it sputtered and jolted along the

0:33.1

rough country roads. Although the man behind the wheel was, in fact, very much alive,

0:40.3

the world at large believed him to be dead, and he intended it to keep it that way.

0:47.1

The man had spent the last decade and a half laying low and making sure the world at large

0:51.2

believed the stories of his death. And yet, the past is a powerful thing.

0:59.5

It's a vortex that tugs at us. A black hole where, no matter how hard we try to pull away,

1:07.2

we still find ourselves sucked in by its gravity.

1:12.8

In this instance, the dead man had a lifetime of regrets tugging at him,

1:16.4

of guilt and missed opportunities, of other lives that might have been lived.

1:25.7

A life on the straight and narrow, a life where he hadn't become a household name,

1:33.1

a life where he didn't have armed men hunting him.

1:37.4

But life on the run is a lonely one, and the dead man had reached a point where the pull of

1:43.0

the past was just too strong. So instead, he decided to finally give in to those forces and retrace

1:50.3

his steps. He decided to go back and revisit some of the places he'd been throughout his life,

1:56.8

that had made the most impact on him. Places where he'd been happy, just so he could say goodbye.

2:03.7

He first drove to Bags, Wyoming. He and his boys had ridden through there more than once,

2:14.4

and had had themselves some grand old times. He went to see an old girl friend,

2:21.2

then from there he drove to Circleville, Utah, the town he grew up in.

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