After the smoke cleared from the 1896 Montpelier Bank robbery, Henry Rhodes âBubâ Meeks stepped off the wanted posters and into a slow-motion train wreck of his own making. Riding with Butch Cassidy may have taught him a few rulesâdonât shoot unless you have to, treat women and children right, keep it clean and cleverâbut Bubâs luck ran dry faster than Selam the prison horse could gallop.
This episode traces the unraveling of a charming yet desperate outlawâone who never killed, but couldnât stop running. From multiple jailbreaks, fake insanity, and soap-eating stunts, to prison poetry, amputated limbs, and finally vanishing into the Wyoming hills with a wooden leg and a loaded rifle, Bubâs story is as wild as it is heartbreaking.
Was he unlucky? Misjudged? Or simply a man not built for bars and fences?
Step inside the life and mind of a restless soul who outran the law, but not his own mind. This isnât just another outlaw taleâitâs a tragic meditation on identity, consequence, and the thin line between legend and loss.
Family History Drama. True Ancestry, told like legend.
CHARACTERS:
Henry Rhodes Meeks Jr.
Butch Cassidy
Bub Meeks
Will Parry
Roy Toyer
J.C. Edwards
George Hailey
H.H. Albers
Judge Waters
Sheriff Joe White
J. H. Robinson
Dave Norwood
Samual Burd
Warden Charles VanDorn
Tom Welch
Wild Bunch
Tom Widdup
Warden Charles Arney
Guard Burns
George Eden
Clerk Robert Tschudy
Selam
Guard Donnelly
Joe Meeks
Warden R. Fulton
Mr. Meacham
Jed Bullock
LOCATIONS:
Montpelier, Idaho
Bank of Montpelier
Blackfoot, Idaho
Shoshone Journal
Mercer, PennsylvaniaÂ
Holt & Gilmore
Idaho State Prison
Boise, Idaho
Green River, WyomingÂ
Idaho State Hospital
Burnt Fork
Idahna Hotel, Boise, Idaho
Mississippi
Boise River
The Statesman Newspaper
Ada County
Idaho Daily StatesmanÂ
Idaho Historical Society
Lonetree, Wyoming
Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Evanston News
State Asylum, Evanston, WyomingÂ
Uinta County
Wild West
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