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"Old West Cowboy" photos with supporting text, part 3

Did Butch Cassidy, the notorious Old West outlaw who most historians believe perished in a 1908 shootout in Bolivia, actually live to an old age in Washington state?

Most myths concerning the American West originated on the silver screen. Thanks to Hollywood, cowboys, Indians, gunfights, and outlaws paint a romanticized version of what really happened in the Old West. Hollywood lied. Life in the Old West was vastly different from classic Spaghetti Westerns. Clean-cut cowboys portrayed by actors like John Wayne are a far cry from what cowboys were really like.

These shocking historical photos will change how you envision the Old West.

Charley Darkey Parkhurst, born Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst (18121879), also known as One Eyed Charley or SixHorse Charley, was an American stagecoach driver, farmer and rancher in California. Born and reared as a girl in New England, mostly in an orphanage, Parkhurst ran away as a youth, taking the

Soapy Smith and the demise of the Sam Bass Gang. The Sam Bass Gang had a budding outlaw in attendance when they attempted to rob the Williamson County

Grauman’s may have its celebrity forecourt, but the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has its own collection of memorialized feet. Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) starred in the 1922 silent movie, Robin Hood, which premiered at Sid Grauman’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California. In equal partnership with Fairbanks and actress Mary Pickford, Sid Grauman opened Grauman’s Chinese…