Etta Place Research Paper
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Etta Place
The mysterious outlaw, with the supposed identity of Etta Place, has stumped historians for more than a century, leaving behind unfinished timelines and questions. She was assumed to be born circa 1878, described in newspapers to be around 23-27, on average, thus the guess about her year of birth. Nothing is known about her younger years, (although supposedly she was a school teacher before she met the Sundance Kid.) and doesn’t appear in history till around the late 1890s. There is no census with her name in it, adding to the mystery of this criminal outlaw. There are a lot of blanks in her story, but some people have been able to piece the tiny pieces of evidence together, creating a fascinating story of a woman who dared to be different.
(The Sundance Kid & Etta Place left)
Etta Place was a girlfriend/wife of the Sundance Kid. They claimed to be married, but no certificate to prove it. She was one of the only women in the Wild Bunch; the rowdy group of famous outlaws, consisting of the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy, Elzy Lay, Laura Bullion, Tall Texan (Ann Bassett’s father), Ann Bassett, and a few other members, adding up to a total of 19 members. There hideout was at Hole-in-the-Wall in Kaycee Wyoming. The capture reward for Etta or her husband was up to $30,000!
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She lived alone in San Francisco in 1908 after the death of Butch Cassidy and her husband, who were both shot in a gunfight on November 7, 1908 in Bolivia. She disappeared from history after that, but a woman of her description asked to file a death certificate so she could take care of his property, many people assumed that she was Etta Place. But no one knew for sure if he was as dead as a doorknob or not. And so was the life and crimes of Etta Place. She was woman that dreamed to be different, but chose it in a peculiar way; the life of
Etta Place
The mysterious outlaw, with the supposed identity of Etta Place, has stumped historians for more than a century, leaving behind unfinished timelines and questions. She was assumed to be born circa 1878, described in newspapers to be around 23-27, on average, thus the guess about her year of birth. Nothing is known about her younger years, (although supposedly she was a school teacher before she met the Sundance Kid.) and doesn’t appear in history till around the late 1890s. There is no census with her name in it, adding to the mystery of this criminal outlaw. There are a lot of blanks in her story, but some people have been able to piece the tiny pieces of evidence together, creating a fascinating story of a woman who dared to be different.
(The Sundance Kid & Etta Place left)
Etta Place was a girlfriend/wife of the Sundance Kid. They claimed to be married, but no certificate to prove it. She was one of the only women in the Wild Bunch; the rowdy group of famous outlaws, consisting of the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy, Elzy Lay, Laura Bullion, Tall Texan (Ann Bassett’s father), Ann Bassett, and a few other members, adding up to a total of 19 members. There hideout was at Hole-in-the-Wall in Kaycee Wyoming. The capture reward for Etta or her husband was up to $30,000!
The most famous crimes Etta and the Wild …show more content…
She lived alone in San Francisco in 1908 after the death of Butch Cassidy and her husband, who were both shot in a gunfight on November 7, 1908 in Bolivia. She disappeared from history after that, but a woman of her description asked to file a death certificate so she could take care of his property, many people assumed that she was Etta Place. But no one knew for sure if he was as dead as a doorknob or not. And so was the life and crimes of Etta Place. She was woman that dreamed to be different, but chose it in a peculiar way; the life of