From gun-toting legends to spectacular geysers, Wyoming lives up to its Wild West legacy, finds Cameron Wilson Friday, 10 October 2008 My visit to Wyoming began in pursuit of a cattle rustler named Robert LeRoy Parker and his sidekick, Harry Longabaugh. A little more than a century ago, the pair achieved fame for carrying out a string of audacious robberies of banks, trains and mine payrolls, as well as for their dash and daring in evading the law. The proceeds funded a lavish lifestyle, but also enabled them to bestow such largesse upon common people in need that comparisons with Robin Hood were inevitably made. Men such as these are not well-suited to prosaic names like Robert and Harry, so it was as Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid that the pair rode high and handsome across the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming for a decade,...
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