McCarty Gang Gold Cache

Tom McCarty was never as

famous

as his one time

partner Butch Cassidy but was also very

colorful

. His love

of fast white Horses and

beautiful

young

Blonde's

often

led

him to trouble. After lying low for close to a year Tom,

his

brother Bill and Bills spoiled son Fred met at the

abandoned

Horse Thieves Hang-out ( still called the

Robbers Roust Canyon )to plan there next big

heist

. After

deciding that another

attempt

in Telluride, after there

failure

with Butch Cassidy, was not a real good idea they

decided on the Farmers Bank of Delta. As was tradition

before a big job they would gather together all they had

left in cash ( in this case about $3,000 in Gold coins ) from

jobs such as Telluride. They then placed it all in a

Saddle Bag, wrapped that in an Oil Cloth, then

buried

the

bundle high and dry somewhere in the twisted Maze of the

Robbers Roust. You see it was understood by all that

everyone may not come back alive but the

Cache

would be

there for those who survive.

So in the Fall of 1893 the McCartys set off on there next

big job, but things soon went ashtray. Upon arriving at the

Bank in Delta Tom wisely opted to hold the getaway

Horses as Bill and the

inexperienced

, know it all, brat Fred

head into the Bank. Tom heard shots fired and the men

came running out with Bill

yelling

"lets go, Fred shot the

Teller". As the 3 men fled the

scene

2 more shots rang

out from a high powered Sharps Rifle belonging to Cash

Simpson, the local Hardware Store owner. 2 shots

equaled

2 deaths, Tom being the lone survivor, who ran

white

Horse

Suzy over the uncompa

gre

Plateau

and

straight

into Moab Utah and then hoped the Train for

Oregon

the likes, never turning

back

and

never

recovering the

Cache

left back at the Robbers Roust

Canyon.

There have been a number of searcher

but as of this

time

there have been no reports of this

Cache

ever being

found.

This Canyon is located above Nucla in the

Tabeguache

trail area on the west side of the

Uncompahgre

Plateau

and just sounds like an

awsome

area to look for

buried

treasure. I plan a

exploratory

voyage into the

Canyon over the Summer but would be interested if any

one would be interested in Joining us this Fall for some

major

searching. Please E-Mail me if you have an interest

at clay@alpineparadise.com.

To be continued!