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   What is 'bandit Heaven' about?

   • “Bandit Heaven” is also about the end of an era. By the first decade of the 20th Century, the West grew less wild. Law enforcement became better organized. Communications improved, so it became possible to alert surrounding communities about fleeing robbers. People moved west, leaving fewer places to hide.

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   How much does bandit Heaven cost?

   • Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West By: Tom Clavin. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press. 287 pages. $30. Butch Cassidy and other outlaws looked to the three hideouts depicted in Tom Clavin's "Bandit Heaven" to escape from the law when the west was wild.

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   What happened to Cassidy in bandit Heaven?

   • Cassidy, incidentally, almost went straight. After the famous Wilcox train robbery, Union Pacific officials nearly reached an agreement to sign him on as a railroad marshall. But a violent storm kept officials from a meeting that would have finalized all. “Bandit Heaven” is also about the end of an era.

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   What tintype is 'bandit Heaven' based on?

   • Tom Clavin’s “Bandit Heaven” takes us down the “Outlaw Trail” with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. An 1892 tintype portrays five members of the so-called Wild Bunch, notorious criminals who drifted between the lawless hide-outs of the West. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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   Who is 'bandit Heaven' star Bob Parker & Harry Longabaugh?

   • The practice of cutting ranchers’ barbed-wire fences is an instigating plot point in the great 1940 Gary Cooper western “The Westerner.” But the true movie-stars-to-be in “Bandit Heaven” are Bob Parker and Harry Longabaugh, better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Here, too, Clavin applies a bit of myth-busting.

   The true stories of the Wild West’s last outlaws are better than fiction

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   Did banditry go from romantic to risky?

   • Banditry, Clavin writes, had gone “from romantic to risky.” That’s putting it glibly, but the arm of the law was indeed shorter during the 19th century, when a so-called Outlaw Trail ran from Montana to Mexico, dotted with hide-outs with names like Hole-in-the-Wall and Robbers Roost.

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   Oct 22, 2024 · “When one such place was found, the first ‘bandit heaven,’ was born.” From that point on in the book Bandit Heaven is rendered with capital letters, as if it were a distinct place rather than a contrived description of what amounts to the entirety of the western half of the nation. In a more realistic vein, the author does focus ...

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   2 days ago · “Bandit Heaven” is also about the end of an era. By the first decade of the 20th Century, the West grew less wild. ... Gunmen died. Civilization intruded. The book is chockablock full of ...

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   Oct 22, 2024 · Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang and the Final Chapter of the Wild West by Tom Clavin is a thrilling true story of an infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of the Wild West and the lawmen who pursued them.

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   Oct 22, 2024 · Robbers Roost, Brown’s Hole and Hole-in-the-Wall were three hideouts that collectively were known to outlaws as “Bandit Heaven.” During the 1880s and ‘90s, these remote locations in Wyoming and Utah harbored hundreds of train and bank robbers, horse and cattle thieves, the occasional killer, and anyone else with a price on his head.

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   3 days ago · BANDIT HEAVEN: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West, by Tom Clavin. ... They died in 1908 during a shootout with Bolivian soldiers and policemen. Some dreamers claim ...

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   Oct 22, 2024 · Ultimately, only Cassidy and Sundance escaped . . . to meet their fate 6000 miles away, becoming legends when they died in a fusillade of lead. Bandit Heaven is a thrilling read, filled with action, indelible characters, and some poignance for the true end of the Wild West outlaw.

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   Oct 19, 2024 · 'Bandit Heaven' details late 19th century hideouts in Wyoming and Utah — Robbers Roost, Brown’s Hole and Hole-in-the-Wall — and the colorful cast who sequestered there.