Treasure Hunting Adventures in Colorado

The McCarty Gang Cache in Colorado’s Robbers Roust

Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by Clay.
Categories: McCarty Gang Cache.

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The first Treasure that I would like to share with you all is the one I have had the most involvement in called the McCarty Gang Cache. Tom McCarty was never as famous as his one time partner Butch Cassidy, tough they were partnered up on the famouse Telluride Job, but he was a colorful character. His love of fast white horses and beautiful young blonde’s often led him into trouble and of course robbing banks didnt help.

After the Telluride job and Tom and Butch had went there seperate ways, Tom layed low for close to a year then hooked up with his brother Bill and Bills spoiled son Fred. They met at the abandoned Horse Thievs Hang-Out ( still called the Robbers Roust Canyon ) to plan there next big heist. After deciding that another attempt in Telluride, after all the hoopla from the last robbery, was not a good idea, they decided on the Farmers Bank of Delta Colorado. As was tradition before a big job the Outlaws would gather together all they had left in cash ( in this case about $3,000 in Gold coins left over mostly from the Telluride Job ) and Cache it away. The logic being this way now one had it on there person and if things went North and some died the survivors could return for the cache. So they placed the Gold in a saddle bag, wrapped that in a oil cloth, then buried the bundle high and dry somewhere in the twisted maze of the Robbers Roust.
So the cache was made in the Robbers Roust, a canyon droping off the Uncompahgre Plateau, above Nucla, Colorado. Then the McCartys saddled up there horses ( Tom on Suzy his famous 4 leged blonde bombshell ) and headed up over the Uncompahgre Plateau heading east to Deltas Farmers Bank and a man named Cash Simpson.

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