Thursday, October 30, 2008
Ey oop! Butch was a Lancashire outlaw
The most famous outlaw of them all may not have had a Southern drawl but a Lancashire twang. Butch Cassidy carved his name in history when he terrorised the Wild West with his gang of crooks just over a century ago.
Bank and train robber Butch also became part of Hollywood legend when Paul Newman played him in the Oscar-winning 1969 western film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Now Butch could be set to be immortalised in a new heritage trail in Preston, where his father Maximilian Parker lived as a young man. So how much do we know about Butch and his family's Preston roots? - Lancashire Evening Post
Labels: History, outlaws
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