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Butch Cassidy’s “Lost Manuscript” a Hoax

posted on September 2nd, 2011 in Andes Mountains, Argentina, Bolivia, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Recent Discoveries

Butch Cassidy (far right), the Sundance Kid (far left) & the Wild Bunch in Fort Worth, Texas 1900. That same year Butch & Sundance would leave for Patagonia, in Argentina, and attempt to go straight. Most historians believe that, eight years later, in 1908, Butch & Sundance were gunned down in San Vicente, a small mining town in Bolivia, after robbing a mining payroll. A few writer-historians believe that Butch survived, returned to the U.S., and lived for decades in the western United States under the alias of William T Phillips.

Anatomy of a Farce

By Dan Buck

Earlier this summer, the Salt Lake City Deseret News published an article, “Lost Butch Cassidy Manuscript Found,” by reporter Michael De Groote, disclosing the discovery of a “long-lost manuscript” said to be the autobiography of the Western outlaw.  Brent Ashworth, a veteran Provo rare book and document dealer, had recently purchased the manuscript, “The Bandit Invincible,” on Abebooks.com.  He told me this week he had paid about $12,000…

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Amazon Held Advanced, Spectacular Civilizations Prior to European Contact

posted on September 26th, 2010 in Amazon Jungle, Archaeology, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Recent Discoveries

Map of the Amazon

Scientists Find Evidence Discrediting Theory Amazon Was Virtually Unlivable

The Washington Post

September 5, 2010; 7:57 PM

SAN MARTIN DE SAMIRIA, PERU – To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial – from the ubiquitous fruit palms to the cry of howler monkeys, from the air thick with mosquitoes to the unruly tangle of jungle vines…

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Proof that Ancient South Americans Took Hallucinogens Discovered in Mummies’ Hair

posted on November 8th, 2008 in Andes Mountains, Archaeology, Bolivia, Recent Discoveries, Tiwanaku Culture

 Tiwanaku ceramic vessel in museum in La Paz, Bolivia

Tiwanaku ceramic vessel in museum in La Paz, Bolivia; evidence of South Americans taking hallucinogens dates back at least to the Chavin culture, in north/central Peru, which flourished from 1,000 to 200 B.C.

Andean Mummy Hairs Show Hallucinogen Use

Discovery News

Oct. 29, 2008 — Andean mummy hair has provided the first direct archaeological evidence of the consumption of hallucinogens in pre-Hispanic Andean populations, according to recent gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analysis…

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