[Jerry Nickle]

Wow has this been enlightening! Shane Ross gave me a badly needed education and Mark Suszko pointed to the next steep. Now Shane Ross gives me more education and an opportunity. He will be one of the first to get a copy of the book.

As far as the documentary is concerned we are hoping to remain independent. Until I read the messages on this site I was about to give up on that.

When I first mention my Sundance Kid discovery to strangers they are naturally skeptical and they should be. I don’t have my book published yet for them to see the proof and documentation. Incidentally I am getting and approving the final edit this week so hopefully the published book will be available very soon. I will leave a message here when that book is available.

I got ahead of myself a year ago when working with a screenplay writer we submitted the screenplay to a Hollywood personality. Like every else he was naturally skeptical too and just backed away. That was when I realized I have to have the book completely finished and in their hands along with the screenplay before they commit to anything.

There was only one Sundance Kid and I have his complete story from his birth to when he was murdered.

[Jerry Nickle]

Dec 4,
Thanks for the comments. I made the Sundance Kid discovery. It took me over five years to complete the research. I contracted with a person to film and make a documentary. The filming was completed on October 1, 2012. The film includes the exhumation, forensic and DNA tests. It includes some horse scenes on the very trails that Butch and Sundance used in the Robbers Roost. It includes a train and a bank robbery scenes and interviews with old times that actually knew Sundance. At the reburial we used a horse drawn Hearst with cowboys pulling the Hearst to the grave-site. A professional western cowgirl singer sang some ballads and prayer was said then he was reburied for good. This is all on film. Anyway I could not understand why he did not have the editing and the documentary finished by now so I made the original comment. I now understand how much time it takes and the different steps required.

Several years ago we contacted the history channel to see if they would be interested in the project. They said Westerns are always popular and this is a unique story. They wanted two complete one-hour documentaries to broadcast consecutively. We are on a limited budget and just cannot do what they want. I guess at this point the alternative is to produce a trailer and present this along with my book with the proof to different outlets. Where do I go from here?

Here are three newspaper links to the story.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/705270796/Is-Sundance-really-buried-in-Duchesne.html
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/705285588/Was-Duchesne-farmer-the-Sundance-Kid.html
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/705354507/Digging-up-the-past-Man-sure-relative-was-Sundance-Kid.html

[Jerry Nickle]

The story I have is the discovery of the Sundance Kid including his death in 1936 in Utah. I know nothing about the editing process and would like to know the basic steps required from the filming to the finish.