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Far West Bandits in Patagonia

Americans Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh met in 1897. They were known as Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, and were part of the fearsome gang Wild Bunch that robbed banks and trains.  Harassed by the sleuths of the Pinkerton Detective agency that watched over them like hawks, and also due to the great number of posters offering really generous rewards to those who turned them in “dead or alive”, the bandits had to find a way out… to Patagonia.

In the Argentine south, they found an ideal environment to repeat their far west epic stories. Large extensions of no man’s land, pioneers’ lands, soils suitable for stock farming, scarce police surveillance, the threat of native “savages”, strong winds, dust in the air…

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