Charles Kelly was a Salt Lake City printer when he got to know cowboy artist Charlie Russell. The friendship pushed Kelly to further investigate the West, especially its history.
And one of the results: The Outlaw Trail, a self-published 1938 account of the Wild Bunch. Butch Cassidy and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang had almost been forgotten by that time, but Kelly interviewed a lot of old-timers to get their story (sometimes not accurately).
The book was one of the first to assert that
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