Cowboy State Daily’s ‘Drinking Wyoming’ is presented by Pine Bluffs Distilling.
Plenty of places in Wyoming lay claim to Butch Cassidy’s being there. He slept here, he robbed a bank here, he hid out here, danced with the ladies here and saved an old lady there.
But a fun adventure — and obvious tourist marketing ploy that’s so far been sparsely used — is Cassidy drank whiskey here.
Now some historians would have you believe that Cassidy didn’t drink that much, if at all. And it’s true that we don’t know for sure what Cassidy’s drink of choice would have been.
But perhaps those historians are relying a little too much on the description of him from former gal pal, Queen Ann Basset, who claimed in her memoir that she never saw Cassidy “drunk nor wearing a gun — in sight.”
She also claimed, though, to have no personal knowledge of any deeds of “outlawry” and that Cassidy never lived in Brown’s Park after he was “wanted” by the law.
That’s despite her sister Josie admitting they helped hide Cassidy after a “rich uncle died” — a common outlaw euphemism for robbing a bank or train.
Probably, it’s best to take all of Ann Bassett’s assertions with a grain or three of salt.
In fact, we do know that