“We Were Praying For Him”

Alan Whicker interviews Lula Parker Betenson, the 94-year-old sister of Western outlaw Butch Cassidy, in 1978, two years before her death. This line about Cassidy’s devout Mormon ancestors stays with me: “Drawn towards the mecca of their religion, they sailed from Liverpool in 1856 and walked the 1300 miles from Iowa to Salt Lake City.”

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