Riding the outlaw trail - Simon Casson

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the last of the legendary outlaws, were captured on daguerreotype, romanced in fiction, and immortalized on film by Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Simon Casson sets out on horseback to retrace the real-life footsteps of his boyhood heroes, covering 2,000 miles ofthe country'stoughest and most treacherous terrain. Steeped in the lore of the Old West but lacking desert and mountain survival skills, Simon recruits ex-marine commando Richard Adamson. Together they grapple with hostile landscape, climatic extremes, vital supply shortages, andenormous personality clashes. Battling from one outlaw hideout to another andfollowing trails sometimes only accessible by horseback, they are constantly taxed to the limit. In this dramatic account of their adventure, Simon and Richard alsoencapsulate the exciting and violent lives of the Wild Bunch 100 years ago, andproviding anintimate and heartwarmingpicture of the rancher families who live and work this demanding land today.