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San Vicente Canton is one of the cantons of the Atocha Municipality, the second municipal section of the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in south-west Bolivia. During the census of 2001 it had 104 inhabitants.
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As Carlos Pero encouraged his mule to lumber up a rugged trail high in the Andes Mountains on the morning of November 4, 1908, little did the courier for the Aramayo, Francke and Cia mining company realize that his every move was being watched. Pero later recounted that after cresting a hill, he was surprised by two Yankees, whose faces were covere...
As a Bolivian soldier approached the hideout, the Americans shot him dead. A brief exchange of gunfire ensued. After it subsided, San Vicente mayor Cleto Bellot reported hearing three screams of desperation followed by a single gunshot, then another, from inside the house. When the Bolivian authorities cautiously entered the hideout the following m...
The man thought to be the Sundance Kid was slumped against a wall with bullet wounds to his body and a gunshot to his forehead. The man believed to be Cassidy was next to him on the floor with a bullet hole to his temple. Contrary to the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in which the outlaws go down in a blaze of glory amid a hail of bul...
At an inquest, Pero identified the corpses as those of the thieves who had ambushed himalthough all he had ever seen of the masked men were their eyes. But neither Pero nor anyone else ever positively identified the two dead men as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid before their reported burial in an unmarked grave in a San Vicente cemetery. Althou...
The researchers enlisted the help of Clyde Snow, the renowned forensic anthropologist who had conclusively identified the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, and received permission from Bolivian authorities to exhume the robbers bodies. Guided to their purported grave by an elderly villager whose father had reportedly witnessed the shootou...
After a detailed forensic analysis and a comparison of DNA to the relatives of Cassidy and Longabaugh, Snow found there was no match. The skeleton was instead likely to have been that of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer who had worked in the area. Its possible that the bodies of the iconic desperados remain buried elsewhere in the San Vicente cem...
Dec 31, 2009 · Here in the tiny town of San Vicente (population 800), the world’s most famous outlaws are supposed to have been gunned down 101 years ago, days after robbing the payroll of a Bolivian mine....
Most experts agree that on 6 or 7 November 1908, Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh – better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – were shot dead in the bleak Bolivian mining town of San Vicente Canton (altitude 14,771 ft, population 104).
San Vicente Canton is one of the cantons of the Atocha Municipality, the second municipal section of the Sud Chichas Province in the Potosí Department in south-west Bolivia. During the census of 2001 it had 104 inhabitants.
Nov 24, 2020 · San Vicente Museum, also known as the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Memorial Museum, lies in a small mining town in Bolivia which is believed to be the site of the last stand of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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While officially the pair met their end in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia, conflicting reports suggest Butch was stabbed in the slums of Paris, whacked after a bank raid in Uruguay and ate lead in a New Mexico brothel.
