South of the Border Author:John Byrne Cooke Charlie Siringo, writer and retired Pinkerton detective, runs a Hollywood boarding house in 1919 which houses cowboys and Indians who split their time working in Wild West shows and Western movies. Into Siringo's world comes a reportedly dead outlaw from Charlie's detective days, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy. The two join up ... more »with a production company to film The Trail of Pancho Villa in Mexico. Villa himself and his army capture the company and, in a case of life imitating art imitating life, insists on playing himself in the movie. When federal troops arrive, a pitched battle takes place.« less