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"Butch Cassidy - A Biography"

"Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances and writers after his presumed death in a Bolivian village.

Born to a devout Mormon family in Utah, Robert Leroy Parker demonstrated early on the acquisitiveness and restlessness that would lead him into criminal life. As a teenager he met Mike Cassidy, a cowhand skilled in using a running iron to change livestock brands.

Eventually he drifted into Telluride meeting men that taught him how to rob banks and trains, laying out for Parker a career path that would lead him to a new name - Butch Cassidy."

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