Who cannot forget the movie, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?" Well, it wasn't Paul Newman and Robert Redford, the daring duo, and Robert Redford's love interest, Katherine Ross, all of whom who managed to steal a lot of money.
So, let's get a bit more real. Butch Cassidy and Harry Longabaugh were close friends. Longabaugh went by the epithet (nickname) of the Sundance Kid. This twosome formed a gang of outlaws, the Wild Bunch, who were robbers. They planned and executed a heist of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company in Castle Gate, Utah.
After smart planning they knew a train would come on April, 21st, 1897. They also knew that the train would contain the payroll for all of those employees working the coal.
When the train made its way into town, Cassidy and the Kid held it up and dashed off with many bags of the shiny yellow stuff. Picture the swirl of dust as an angry mob of citizens rode in pursuit. The robbers and the angry flock of town dwellers headed south into the Utah deserts and canyons. The lucky robbers lost the angry riders in pursuit near North Spring Canyon. In the canyon was a place the famous duo liked. They headed for Robber's Roost.
Taken from - https://www.blm.gov/visit/robbers-roost-dirty-devil mostly by Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch gang in the closing years of the Old West.Robber's Roost is a remote area of desert country in central Utah, cut by a maze of spectacular canyons. Named from its history as a hideout of the Butch Cassidy gang, the Roost is located between Hanksville on the west and Canyonlands Maze District on the east, with most canyons draining into the Dirty Devil River, or north into Horseshoe Canyon. The area is very isolated, there are miles and miles of canyons and routes, there is a low probability of encountering others, and the canyons are not patrolled regularly. Other than some identified trailheads there are no developed facilities in the Roost area. These circumstances require the visitor to be experienced and come prepared.
To be a bit more specific, the Roost is located somewhere about fifty miles east of Hanksville, Utah.
By legend, the gold that Butch, Sundance, and the Wild Bunch stole is supposedly buried in this untamed desert area close to Robber's Roost. As far as fact goes, the dastardly duo made off with about $7000 of 1897 gold. Those bags of gold would be worth 37.39 times more today, or, $261,730. Now, wait a minute, if you consider the numismatic worth of the coins in the bags, they could be worth millions. Now for more intrigue. Butch, Sundance, and the Wild Bunch reportedly hid loot from other robberies in the same place. Of course, whether that is fact or rumor, we have no idea. That is why you might want to read further.
The treasure has never been found.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid
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