On our 4th and last day in Southern Utah, we began with nice views of the sun coming up in Bryce Canyon National Park.
I have selected some of the photos to share here taken by Scott, Sam and me.
Scott's photo of the sunrise as we entered Bryce Canyon.
Bryce Amphitheater from Sunrise Point
Starting on the Navajo Loop
Narene, Sam, Scott, and Kristine
The Navajo Loop is the most popular trail in the park.
Narene and Sam
Scott hiking down from Sunset Point (front, 2nd from the left)
Scott took this photo before starting back up.
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We had lunch in "Cowboys Smokehouse Cafe" in Panguitch.
Born as Robert Leroy Parker on April 13, 1866,
he was the oldest of 13 children and grew up on this small ranch
south of Circleville, Utah, on highway 89.
Though he grew up to become an internationally wanted outlaw, Butch Cassidy’s life had more humble beginnings, as he was raised by Mormon pioneer parents in this remote cabin.
Parker left home in his teens and supported himself by working as a farmhand on ranches and dairy farms.
While working on one farm he was mentored by a cattle rustler named Mike Cassidy and began using Cassidy as his own surname. Several years later, while apprenticing for a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming, he acquired the nickname “Butch,” and went by the name Butch Cassidy for the rest of his life.
Sam checking out the machinery.
$2,000 reward posted by Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
In 1889, Cassidy committed his first bank robbery in Telluride, Colorado, and used the illicit cash to buy a ranch in Dubois, Wyoming. The ranch was never financially successful, but that didn’t matter. Cassidy used it as a front for his illegal activity and as a way to launder his stolen money.
Cassidy and his cronies became such a thorn in the side of the banks and railroad companies that the Pinkerton Detective Agency was hired to track him down. Cassidy and fellow Wild Bunch gang member Harry Longabaugh, also known as the Sundance Kid, fled to South America in 1901. They bought a ranch in Argentina and briefly tried to live as ranchers, but soon returned to robbing banks.
Census in 1880
Father: Parker, Max; Mother: Ann
6 children including Robert Leroy Parker
(better known as Butch Cassidy)
Rumors of Cassidy’s survival were widespread,
especially in his native Utah.
Some claimed he paid a surgeon to alter his appearance
and returned to the United States.
Despite numerous anecdotes about his reappearance,
the bulk of the evidence seems to point at the notorious outlaw
dying in a gunfight with the Bolivian Army in 1908.
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We went through Nephi on our way home and
arrived in Spanish Fork mid-afternoon.
