Local attorney writes book about the first outlaw killed by firing squad in Utah

LOGAN – Local attorney and historian Brian Craig uncovered a true crime story mostly unknown to the public about a Utah bandit named Patrick Coughlin whose life story rivals Billy the Kid and other notorious gunslingers of the Old West.

The title of the book is: Utah Outlaw Patrick Coughlin: The Crime Spree of a Forgotten Desperado.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s crew began their crime spree robbing banks in 1896 and for the next three years they robbed trains and banks from Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado…

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