She has set this book up as if you are taking a tour over the Uncomphgre Plateau, starting on the North end coming out of Unaweep Canyon ( the canyon with a summit in the middle ) following the Divide Road ( which splits the plateau east to west ) and end just up the road from my home on Dave Wood Road on the south end. I gathered much of my info about the McCarty Gang Cache from this book and much more. On the cover of the book is a view looking out of a Ute Flint Mine, were the Natives gathered flint to make Arrowheads. This is a unique archaeological site that is a pet project of the Chapita Chapter of the Colo Arch Society the local group that I belong to.

I recommend any book by Murial Marshall!

We found an old Indian trail that led down the West side of the Tabeguache Canyon what looked to be about a half mile or so down stream from the Roust. Our hopes where to travel up stream to the mouth of the Roust. Our hopes where broken when we found that the Stream was a roaring River and the vegetation was impassable. After placing a Geo-cache ( one that is still not been found as of this writing ) we decided to trudge our way back up the trail to my Burb and travel out of the Tabeguache Canyon and over to the tip of Starvation Point and get a different angle on the Robbers Roust.

Judd and the Geo-Cache.

The Tabeguache Creek / River

As the 3 men fled the scene 2 more shots rang out from a high powered Sharps Sniper Rifle belonging to Cash Simpson, the local Hardware Store owner. 2 shots equaled 2 deaths, Tom being the lone survivoir, ran the wind out of his Blonde Horse Suzy but made it to were they had there extra mounts and was able to out pace the Posse that was in hot pursuit. A short time later Tom made it into Moab, Utah and was hidden by some friends. He found out the Law was closing in on him so he hoped on the Train for Oregan or the likes, were legend has it he found true love, and a living raising Blonde Horses, never to return and never to recover the hidden Cache in the Robbers Roust.

There have been a number of searcher’s but as of this time there have been no reports of this cache ever being found . So let the searching begin.

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.