BUTCH CASSIDY CABAÑA
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Log cabin built by legendary American outlaw Butch Cassidy, requisitioned by carpenters to keep it standing
A detour to Cholila certainly hides a desire to see the log cabin of the mythical American outlaws Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Etta Place. Actively sought in the United States (US$10,000 reward), they eventually vanished into thin air and landed here in 1901. They tried to pass themselves off as honourable farmers and purchased 6,000 hectares from a landowner. They built a ranch, bought cattle, and began to enjoy happy days far from the legendary days of the Wild West. However, their past caught up with them: the American detectives of the Pinkerton agency, who were on their heels, eventually spotted them. They fled again to escape justice and the detectives who were getting dangerously close. Heading north, they first crossed the province of San Luis before reaching Chile and Bolivia. Butch and Sundance were finally killed in Bolivia, near Tupiza, although some theories do not accept this version: according to some Butch committed suicide and according to others they both died of old age in the 1930s in the United States, having lived anonymously until the end of their lives, while Etta Place reached San Francisco via Valparaíso in Chile. The Cholila hut, more than a century old, is at the very least dilapidated despite the requisition of many carpenters to keep it standing.
