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I was prepared to be unimpressed. Donna B. Ernst University of Oklahoma Press; New edition (May 2010)

From School Library Journal

The film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid first brought Sundance (Harry Longabaugh) to the attention of the American public. While it was based on fact, like most Hollywood films it included just as much fiction in order to tell a good story. Now Ernst (Sundance, My Uncle) presents the results of her excavations into family records and historical archives to bring us Sundance’s story from his early days in Pennsylvania to his death in Bolivia. Along the way, we meet the Wild Bunch, the Pinkertons, and Charles Woodcock, the express messenger who was held up twice by the Wild Bunch. Like most outlaws, Sundance was blamed for many more robberies than he actually committed. Ernst corrects the record, showing what Sundance did and did not do and describing his attempts to go straight. She also brings to light his activities in South America and presents convincing evidence that Butch and Sundance were killed in Bolivia. This delightful book is aimed at general readers and American Western history buffs and can be appreciated by specialists as well.—Stephen H. Peters, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., Marquette Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (Hardcover)

I was prepared to be unimpressed.
However Donna B. Ernst presents new information not found in
“Digging up Butch and Sundance”, the Butch Cassidy biography, and the
other books.
I was a little disappointed that she left out several important things,
like Butch Cassidy’s assesment of Ethyl, “She is a great housekeeper,
but she has the heart of a whore”.
I do highly recommend this book.

~ by partten on February 13, 2011.