The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
Salt Lake City: 1938. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown pebbled cloth with the title on the front board. Very good. Item #10935
The Outlaw Trail is the definitive work on Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and is based on decades of research and interviews with the surviving outlaws and their descendants. The Wild Bunch, was a confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, who found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. "This privately printed book, limited to one thousand copies, is now quite scarce. It is an excellent history of the lives and exploits of the better-known outlaws of the Northwest." - Adams Six-guns 1221. Howes K58
Charles Kelly (1889-1971) was a western historian of note, writing the first (and best) book on Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. He also wrote books on the Hastings Cutoff (Salt Desert Trails) and the fur trade (Miles Goodyear and Old Greenwood. Kelly also served as the first superintendent of Capitol Reef National Monument in Southern Utah.
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