Etta Place: Her Life and Times With Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

by Gail Drago

This biography portrays the beautiful, enigmatic, and most elusive member of the Wild Bunch Gang -- Etta Place. Following Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid anywhere, Etta shared an adventurous life on the run that stretched from the mountainous Utah hideout of Robber's Roost to the red light district of San Antonio and finally to the remote South American region of Patagonia. The book also looks at many tales that place all three alive and well after that famous gun battle in South America.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Westerns

285 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

Reviews

[Louise Carlson Stowell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought it was very well written. Interesting take on a mysterious woman. Personally, I take a different view of who Etta really was. Still it was very fleshed out with sources to give an impressive picture of the lady who ran with outlaws.

[Iron · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly just a bunch of he said, she said, gossip type stuff. Very few if any facts.

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was really less about Etta Place herself, but the rest of the Wild Bunch, and the times they lived it. The sections on Etta herself were merely a collection of theories about who she might have been, and what might have happened to her.
I picked up a bit of pieces of trivia, but would recommend reading Gerald Kopland's novel Etta instead. It's fictional, but much more fun.