Wanted posters for the Wild West's most notorious outlaws do well in Holabird's June 6th-9th auction

RENO, Nev. - June 28, 2024 - PRLog -- A group of three original wanted posters for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, including two original Pinkerton wanted posters/circulars, sold for $12,500, while wanted posters and other items pertaining to many other notorious Wild West outlaws also performed well in Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC's four-day American History & Hall of Fame Showcase auction held June 6^th thru 9^th, online and live at the Holabird gallery in Reno.

A staggering 2,335 lots came up for bid, in many collecting categories. The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid posters sold as one lot and represented one of the top lots overall. The two outlaws were famously depicted in a movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

That lot, and others like it, were featured on Day 3, unquestionably the busiest of the three days. Other top achievers from the session that also featured famous outlaws included the following:

• An 1882 wanted poster for Black Bart Poet Stage Robber, offering an $800 reward, along with a circular compiled by J.B. Hume, a Wells Fargo Special Officer, containing a poem written by Bart found after a robbery. Bart's real name was Charles E. Boles ($7,187).
• A rare original carte de visite photograph of Black Bart, circulated by Wells Fargo out of Sacramento, Calif. The lot also featured a photograph of Bart, signed (as "Charles E. Boles"), from when he served as a U.S. Army First Sergeant in Illinois ($3,875).
• A collection of nine items relating to the notorious Dalton Gang, including a carte de visite of the deceased gang, taken by a Kansas photographer after a botched bank robbery attempt; and Gratton Dalton's signed oath of office to become a U.S. Marshal ($5,000).
• A Wells Fargo $1,800 reward poster issued in 1881 for three masked men still at large after the Nov. 7, 1881 robbery of the stage from Sonora to Milton, California. The men included Billy Minor (or Miner, alias Billy Anderson, alias the "Grey Fox") ($4,875).
• A collection of four items from the life of John Wesley Hardin (1853-1895), a hardened criminal, Western outlaw and murderer of at least a dozen men, who became a lawyer at the end of his life, only to have himself murdered in El Paso by a jealous man ($3,375).

Internet bidding was via iCollector.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. All prices include an 18 percent buyer's premium. To learn more, please visit www.holabirdamericana.com.