THE WILD BUNCH (PT 2) BILL BETENSON INTERVIEW
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
1001 Interviews Bill Betenson, author of "Butch Cassidy, My Uncle", about his research into the life and times of the famous outlaw Butch Cassidy and his associates. Did Butch and Sundance die in a shootout as many say, or did they live in peace back in the states for years after? Bill shares what he has found.
Link to his book at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Butch-Cassidy-Uncle-Bill-Betenson/dp/1937147037
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Hello everyone and welcome back to 1001 heroes, legends, histories, and mysteries. |
| 0:34.4 | As promised, we have a very special guest here today, |
| 0:37.3 | Bill Bentinson, and Butch Cassidy was his great-grand uncle. |
| 0:42.8 | He's the author of Butch Cassidy, my uncle, |
| 0:45.4 | and hopefully he's going to shed some light |
| 0:46.9 | on a lot of the questions that we have regarding |
| 0:49.3 | Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, |
| 0:51.3 | Edda, and the Wild Bunch. |
| 0:53.0 | Bill, how you doing today? |
| 0:55.0 | Doing good. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, good. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm hoping you can introduce yourself and your background |
| 1:00.0 | and what got you, obviously your genealogy got you into this to begin with, |
| 1:06.4 | but what really inspired you to go forward with research on this? |
| 1:09.6 | You've been doing it a long time, as I understand. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, so I grew up here in the stories and I mean my |
| 1:16.6 | great-grandma which his sister lived to be 96 years old I was 15 when she |
| 1:21.3 | passed away so I grew up hearing stories from her and always interested in the old west and that and when I graduated from college I have a degree in mechanical engineering. I needed a diversion or something. |
| 1:39.5 | So I started reading a lot and was like, oh, this was a lot of fun. I can read a book and don't have to derive an equation and stuff. So I just started reading and research and got interested and then, and you know, met friends and we went to visit the |
| 1:57.2 | Robber sites and hideouts and you know just kind of went from there and then I decided well I really need to I've done all this |
| 2:05.0 | research for you know like 20 years I need to put it down in a book at least for my |
| 2:10.0 | kids and family to have and so then I started doing the book and you know that's the challenge there |
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