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Etta Place: Riding into History with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The mystery began simply enough with her identity. Who was she? As a young woman, she took the name, "Place," from the maiden name of the mother of her lover, Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid), and combined it with several first names, including "Mrs. Ethel Place." The Pinkertons knew her as "Ethel," "Ethal," "Eva," and "Rita" before finally settling on "Etta" for their wanted posters. You'll come to know her as the most remarkable, enigmatic, and mysterious woman ever to grace the old Wild West.