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Etta Place (b. c. 1878, d. ?) was a companion of the American outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, alias Sundance Kid. The three were members of the outlaw gang known as Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. She was principally the companion of Longabaugh.
Aug 14, 2011 · The way most people remember Etta Place: Katharine Ross with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid/ Douglas Kirkland, CORBIS. Everybody loves a good vanishing act. Literally hundreds of mysterious disappearances lurk in American history.
According to legend, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Harry Longabaugh) infamous Utah outlaws noted throughout the West for their daring train, bank, and payroll heists, had a variety of female companions–but none quite as mysterious as the wild and sophisticated Etta Place.
Feb 27, 2024 · Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (aka the “Sundance Kid”) and paramour Etta Place (a woman of mysterious origins and a half dozen aliases) boarded a steamer bound for South America shortly after posing in a New York studio for this 1901 portrait.
Sep 3, 2013 · Etta (Ethel) Place, girlfriend of Harry A. Longabaugh, a.k.a. the Sundance Kid, is a mystery woman. We know from her photo she was a beautiful gal. Author Donna Ernst, whose husband is kin to the Sundance Kid, says she was called Ethel, but it’s unlikely Etta, Ethel or Place was her real name.
Oct 4, 2018 · The enigmatic Etta, (Ethel) Place is one of the Old West’s most enthralling mysteries. We know from her photo she was a beautiful, intelligent looking woman. According to author Donna Ernst her name was Ethel. There’s almost nothing known about the real Etta.
Jul 15, 2019 · According to one of the many legends of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Etta Place in South America, two men and one woman at the table pulled their chairs into the limited shade offered by the thin limbs of casadensis trees.
Jun 2, 2023 · Ethel "Etta" Place was infamous for her association with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - but who was the real person behind the fake name?
Sep 28, 2010 · The beautiful and adventurous Etta Place was the love of legendary outlaw duo Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, beginning with the latter before becoming the former's...
Longabaugh fled the United States along with his consort Etta Place and Butch Cassidy to escape the dogged pursuit of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where most historians believe Parker (Cassidy) and Longabaugh were killed in a shootout in November 1908.