Not every item offered for sale attracts prospective buyers. Sometimes, a notice of sale awakens the sleuth in people.
Richard Johnston, a photographer for the Nevada Department of Transportation in Carson City, happened upon such a notice for a Utah document connected to the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy.
Johnston was positive he had seen the same document while conducting research on outlaws at the Utah State Archives in 1976. Doubting that archivists had sold the letter, he call
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