Was Butch Cassidy real? Yes, he was. The real person behind the name was: Robert Leroy Parker. Roy, as he was known when he was young, was born in Beaver, Utah, in April 1866. His father, Maximilian, had a small homestead property there. His parents converted to Mormonism in England and came to America in…
As a young boy, I saw the 1959 movie, Journey to the Center of the Earth. Pardon the pun, but it made a deep impression on me. There were fantastic scenes of caves and caverns, of shadows, weird rock formations, spooky corners and tight spaces. Later, as an adult, I was able to visit a…
If you had to name some famous characters from the history of the American West, who would you say? Buffalo Bill? Annie Oakley? Sitting Bull? Wyatt Earp? Geronimo? Billy the Kid? Jeremiah Johnson, maybe? (Just kidding. As much as Robert Redford would like it if we thought Jeremiah Johnson was real, he wasn’t. The 1972…
