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RE: Butch and Sundance. Harry Tries Living The Straight Life

in #history ā€¢ 6 years ago

Once Harry got a taste of the easy šŸ’° it would be difficult to settle down to working long days as a cowboy, just scraping by on the paycheque.
Pintertonā€™s were ā€˜bigā€™ in those days.
The name ā€œBigā€ could be short for ā€˜Bigelow.ā€ Or the Sheriff was just a big person. šŸ˜‚

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Howdy redheadpei! That's a good point. About Big I mean. Very possible and I was thinking the only explanation was that it was his nickname for being so large. Wish I had a photo of him.
You are so right about the easy money but it just makes no logical sense to me why people want to risk everything in a robbery instead of saving their money up. Cowboys didn't earn much but if they wanted to save up it was easy because they didn't have hardly any expenses.