My grandpa was 1st cousin to Butch (his dad and my great grandmother were siblings) and swore to his dying day he met cousin Butch on the Colorado River in the 1920s
Butch Cassidy escaped to Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada. He lived the rest of his life alone in a small cabin at Nixon Creek not far from the small logging community of Caycuse. He went by the alias Charlie Mott and died in the Duncan British Columbian hospital in 1937. Pinkerton agents came to Duncan to speak with the man but being so ill his doctor refused to let the agents question him. He is buried in the Duncan Cemetery. Children who grew up in Caycuse at that time recalled that Charlie Mott had an American accent and was a sharp shooter with his rifle. They all said he was a very nice man to the kids but didn’t trust many adults and only made friends with one man. The logging camps watchman Mr. Henry Norman. When some of these children got older the pointed out that the picture of Butch Cassidy was Charlie Mott
@@juuullliiuuuss6006 one of the children that new Charlie Mott was friends with my father who logged in the Caycuse logging camp. She told many stories of the man she remembered as a child. There is a news paper article called the Lake Cowichan Gazette that you can Google. If Mott wasn’t Butch Cassidy he was someone the Pinkerton agents were interested in. Butch Cassidy’s sister did say in a letter that her brother was not dead and was living in the north west.
@@cjw5491 interesting as there were lots of jobs in the nw. and NO BORDER existed until 1905-10. !! and remember Van. Island was a British COLONY, not even part of Canada.
There are numerous stories about these two surviving after South America. All just as entertaining as the movie version of their lives, and all just as likely to be fiction. Spoke to a learned gentleman in Lima once, his story was that there were many bandit gangs in Bolivia back in the day and his father told him it’s most likely the two gringos were killed, buried and their possessions divided amongst gang members. With modern DNA testing we could test the claims of people that were buried. Wonder why that hasn’t been done yet?
@shakey, dna tests revealed that the bodies which were exhumed, were definitely not Butch and Sundance! That's certainly an important nail into the coffin of the belief that the two outlaws died 1908 in Bolivia. It's still possible, though, that the wrong bodies have been exhumed. But there is no solid proof whatsoever that Butch and Sundance died in Bolivia. It's actually very surprising that so many historians believe this to be true! At the time Butch and Sundance weren't the only gringo outlaws who tried to hide in South America.
