Amy Harmon – Butch Cassidy Revisited The Joys of Binge Reading

 Amy Harmon grew up in a remote Utah valley, very close to where the famed outlaw Butch Cassidy really lived. Quite a few years before her, of course. The folklore surrounding his Robin Hood reputation has always fascinated her.







She's far too young to have seen the famous movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford first time round, but she's excavated the history and shed a whole new light on the story and her latest book, The Outlaw Noble Salt.







Hi, I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler, and in this week's Binge Reading episode, Amy talks about the mystery surrounding Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, the American outlaw, train robber and leader of a gang called The Wild Bunch. It's officially recorded that he died in a shootout with local authorities in Bolivia in 1908. But did he really? Amy's book is a fascinating and heart-touching re-imagining of the story.







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Links to items mentioned in the show







Movie: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/







Folklore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy







Eliot Ness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Ness







Gladys Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Knight







Books Amy has loved in the past or is reading now:







Louise L'Amour - Western classics: https://www.louislamour.com/







Lucy Maud Montgomery: https://lmmontgomery.ca/about/lmm/her-life







Anne of Green Gables: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Anne-of-Green-Gables







Baroness Orczy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel







Paullina Simons The Bronze Horseman: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/47499.Paullina_Simons







Susanna Kearsley: susannakearsley.com







Poets:







William Butler Yeats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats







Emily Dickinson: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson







Introducing author Amy Harmon







Amy Harmon: re-imagining the Burch Cassidy story







But now here’s Amy. Hello there, Amy, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.







Amy Harmon: I am so excited to talk to you, Jenny.







Jenny Wheeler: You've written more than 20 books and the most recent one is The Outlaw Noble Salt, and it retells the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance story, The Wild Bunch Story. If we are of a certain age, we saw the movie years ago,