Exploring Butch Cassidy's Hideout - Robbers Roost Utah

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I checked out one of the supposed hideouts of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch in Robbers Roost. Butch Cassidy more than likely used this area as one of his hideouts. This area is hidden below the open desert above and has three springs to provide water for horses, cattle, and of course humans. One of the springs had a decent amount of water flow despite it being winter.
We hope you enjoy this video!
The corral in our video is the same one referenced in this article below. It says, "the original Wild Bunch corral still stands in Robbers Roost." It's amazing to be standing inside the (supposed) same corral that Butch Cassidy used for his horses and cattle!
capitolreef.org/attractions/robbers-roost/
This is a very remote area and you will need plenty of water, food, fuel, and even full tire changing equipment.
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@mikeday62 2 года назад

I've visited this amazing site at least twice. Saw the ancient corral, fireplace-chimney and names carved on the rocks. One time we were walking up the sandy trail to our truck to leave...a giant bull was coming down the sandy trail to drink from the spring. When he saw us, he stopped and snorted. We moved sideways off the trail...and he continued on down past us. Such a huge beast.

@TheTrekPlanner 2 года назад

I'm surprised at how big some of those desert cows can get when it seems there isn't much for them to eat! Thanks for sharing!

@rolandconnor575 Год назад

I was there in 1986.. the stick corral was in much better shape and the chimney also. I have also been to Hole in the wall and Browns Park. Before going to the Hole in 1982, I talked to the rancher's grandmother on the phone who owned the property, and she told me about cooking for the outlaws as a teenager. Two months later when I arrived, she had passed away...

@paulhenson4434 9 месяцев назад

I knew a guy from Utah. He told me his great grand mother lived at Browns hole. Showed me pics of her in front of an old cabin. He said Butch Cassidy would stop in with the gang and she would feed them. He said Butch made it a point that everyone was 'nice' to her. Was pretty cool him telling me this and the pics of a cabin with a corral by it.

@The300savage 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting. In researching my family's background I discovered that I am a 5th cousin to Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy). I know as much as anyone else does about him and haven't robbed any trains but its a neat conversation starter.

@Redpioneeredits 3 дня назад

Your not gonna believe this but so am I 😭

@phillip5545 Год назад

Hi! Enjoyed your video! My wife and I had really good friends Bryant and Edna from Utah. They both passed away about 7-8 years ago in their mid -90's. Bryant's sister was best friends and grew up with one of Butch Cassidy's (Leroy Parker) sisters in Circleville, Utah. Our friends took us to the Parker's old homestead probably 20 years ago. We have a neat plaque we made with Butch's photo and story along with a hand made nail and a piece of window glass from Butch's home. Thanks for the video. We enjoy your videos! My wife and I RVed for 45+ years and spent every spring for almost 25 years in southern and southeast Utah ATVing over 20,000 miles exploring Utah's back country. Another best friend's Mormon grandfather started the town of Bluff and Blanding right after the turn of the 20th century.........early 1900's. Wonderful area!

@Frenchylikeshikes Год назад

The desert is just beautiful. So many things to see.

@-Hammer- 3 года назад

The "Pearl" inscription is from Pearl Biddlecome, later married, changed to Pearl Baker. She wrote many books about the outlaws of Robbers Roost, as she grew up in the area running stock with her dad. N. Wolverton was Norville Wolverton, son of Edwin Thatcher Wolverton. Edwin built old the gold mill that's still standing in Hanksville.

@TheTrekPlanner 3 года назад

Hi Shaun! Thank you for adding more history and clarification to our video. It's great to learn a little bit more about the people who lived in that area

@iainsear7830 Год назад

Wonder if that family came from Wolverton north Buckinghamshire?

@arailway8809 Год назад

Thanks

@skyeseaborn1170 9 месяцев назад

Love that Los fireplace! Thanks for taking us along Jeff.❤️

@SmokeStack-yk3kz Год назад

just found your channel today and after watching one video I subscribed! now Im 22videos into a binge and I'm totally hooked! thanks for filming all this fantastic history, much love from Norway!

@ellen4956 Год назад

I'm so glad I found your channel! I have an old friend in Utah and I'm going to try to find him online to send him links to your videos! He would especially get a kick out of this one, since he was really into the Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid stories, and the movie.

@lindabriggs5118 10 месяцев назад

My old stomping grounds! Love that part of Utah!

@RuggedMile 3 года назад

Cool hike along with a ton of history! Utah has so many awesome sites! 👍

@TheTrekPlanner 3 года назад

So much to see indeed! Thanks for watching our video and thanks for your comment!

@michellenorthrup2059 6 месяцев назад

Have you been to Brown’s Park? There’s so much wild history there, I think you would enjoy it. Butch was friends with Josie Basset and we always wanted to go back and look for his racetrack but couldn’t find a way over there. Maybe you can find it with your drone! The story of Josie and Ann Basset is incredible and their cabins and corral are still there and you can camp in the hole above where Anne drove all the cattle off the cliff into the river. Near flaming gorge, the whole area is amazing - don’t forget to visit Josie’s homestead where she kept her stolen cattle! There is a great book by one of her granddaughters I think, the whole history of the place and the sisters. It’s an almost unbelievable story but it’s all true!

@jmmartin7766 13 дней назад

Just climbed to and explored Jesse James' and Bell Star's hideout at Robber's Cave in Oklahoma-- It was VERY cool eating lunch in the place they hid out for a time

@mhicaoidh1 Год назад

6:25 those are likely coyote tracks. Canine paws have a medium rear pad, two small side pads, and two small front pads (as those appear to have). Coyote prints are compact like that also where as dog prints are often similar but the pads are spread apart more. Feline paws have a large rear pad with four smaller front pads. Cougar prints would also be larger than coyote.

@sandramorey2529 6 месяцев назад

Thanks, Jeff. Another exploration of a place I'll never get to.

@thebackpackerschannel3580 10 месяцев назад

Right after the movie release of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," MAD magazine did a hilarious parody of the movie, in graphic novel format, entitled "Botch Casually and Some Dunce Kid."

@juliadrumgold8790 5 месяцев назад

Wow... some really cool stuff. Thanks Jeff! 😊

@robertolesen5782 2 месяца назад

Been dying to get a glimpse of this place for years. Thanks!

@thomascagle8904 4 месяца назад

I enjoyed the great video. Thanks

@michelleharrell8452 5 месяцев назад

This video is fascinating to me. I wasn't aware of these robber roosts in Utah. There was the one in Wyoming. Where the Hole in the Gang hung out. Famous today as an exclusive ski resort for the very wealthy.

@dutch9357 Год назад

Read a book called “The last robbers roost outlaw” about a guy that ran cows in the elaterite basin in the 20’s. Crazy to think about how much more water and grass there used to be down there. I remember when AC Ekker died they had cowboys from all over trying to find all his cows in that country. Way cool.

@masterdon1521 Год назад

Are you sure there was more water and grass in that area?

@brucea822 Год назад

I believe ACs son still ranches there

@thomasmaughan4798 11 месяцев назад

I knew Barbara Ekker; visited her in her older age.

@anthonycolbourne4206 4 месяца назад

2:20 The hiker who got trapped by a boulder and had to cut off his own arm to free himself (127 HOURS)... that event happened in a canyon a couple of miles north east of here

@jirihamersky6152 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely great and impressive video. Thanks.

@mercedithcompala8148 11 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed it

@TheTrekPlanner 11 месяцев назад

so glad you did!

@Cobbmtngirl 9 месяцев назад

My fav movie in high school. Thanks so much!

@juliebridge7590 3 года назад

Thanks for that video! Love history and fun stuff like that, especially those water springs. Very interesting!!

@TheTrekPlanner 3 года назад

I'm so glad you enjoyed the video, Julie! The springs were really neat to see with all the running water!

@lissablue176 11 месяцев назад

Amazing the fireplace find 💙

@simoncasson3327 2 года назад

Super place. First got here in 1995 and rode with A C Ekker whose family proved up on this land in the early 1900's. Revisited in 1997 and again on the long ride in 1999...

@BlackRoseJenn 9 месяцев назад

RDR2 has taught me to always check to chimneys in random fireplaces!😂

@unrulyjulie4382 Год назад

When I was about 5 years old, in 1965, my mom and dad tried to take me along with them to visit Robbers Roost. I was so afraid of the "robbers" that I screamed and cried and pitched a fit, totally ruining that little excursion. We never did go back. 🤷‍♀️

@paulhenson4434 9 месяцев назад

Way to go

@k.a.davison9897 Год назад

To see a fireplace with a chimney, standing alone is very interesting. I really can't imagine there was a cabin, but instead it was just a permanent fixture for providing a warming fire to sleep around, and to prepare a meal. Of course, I'm simply speculating.

@michaeltaylor4984 10 месяцев назад

Precursor to modern day food trucks, only stationary

@markjohnson5276 Год назад

Cody has an open air museum where they have the bar from near hole in the wall where Butch and Sundance used to hang out.

@TopOfTheMoney 8 месяцев назад

I love the history of Butch Cassidy. He is my cousin!

@jeffhildreth9244 Год назад

Butch Cassidy and Sundance used to hang out in Winnemucca.. little known fact. Also east and south f Elko in the Ruby Mtns.

@charlielaudico3523 Год назад

Both my sons did live in Moab we took many trips there! It proablly different from the 90s

@michelleharrell8452 5 месяцев назад

There are those kinds of fences in Nevada. I have observed these fences from I-80 going East.

@Graeme_Lastname 10 месяцев назад

Invariably interesting. 🙂

@Wes_vin 3 года назад

That fireplace was Butch Cassidy’s that’s where they had their hideout and their camp way cool I wish to make it that way some day

@TheTrekPlanner 3 года назад

That's so crazy to think about! I was standing right there where Butch was standing at that same fireplace!

@Wes_vin 3 года назад

That’s cool beans I’m Jealous maybe someday I could make it there

@TheTrekPlanner 3 года назад

@@Wes_vin The drive wasn't terribly difficult. I got there in an impala haha

@Wes_vin 3 года назад

@@TheTrekPlanner I’m in Canada so it be a while before I get there

@vickifields4365 Год назад

Very cool! If I were younger, I could see myself doing exploration videos too. Lol

@WilliamWagner-hq9ut 11 месяцев назад

Rough life to live there

@bastardjosh1354 2 года назад

yes the chimney is from the hideout

@justdoingitjim7095 Год назад

Cool!

@NelsonMuntz1 Год назад

This was very interesting! Hi from Australia

@mynde-fuchefoundation2254 9 месяцев назад

I suggest a book called "Sometimes Cassidy" by Art Davidson. You'll be fascinated.

@maryeckstein9872 11 месяцев назад

Have you been to Hole in the Wall, outside of Mountain View? We tried to get there, but it might be blocked by private property. Either that or we took the wrong turn. There is a sign to it on the highway.

@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771 2 года назад

Two film points: 1. Did actor Henry Corden (uncredited) appear as a Bolivian police officer chasing Butch and co. on horseback? 2. Beautiful Katherine Ross looked a lot like the real Etta Place.

@tashuntka 10 месяцев назад

I'm still in love with Etta.....💖🎊❤️

@ESTARKY 3 года назад

Wow so cool. I would love to see that fireplace in person! Could you maybe give some directions or coordinates? Heading down that way from Ogden here in a few weeks

@TheTrekPlanner 3 года назад

Hey Conner! We are making a post on our website about how to get there and everything else. Check back soon and we will have it ready!

@garyhull5617 10 месяцев назад

Why not leave the printed info visible for like 1 milasecond longer .......and it would still be useless.

@teacherbenethmontera5138 3 года назад

I find this place interesting and are those the names of the outlaws? I love to learn about outlaws.. love this video. 🙂🙂🙂

@TheTrekPlanner 3 года назад

Glad you liked it, Beneth! Thank you for watching! :-)

@glennpace9230 10 месяцев назад

Cool

@user-yv2sc5qv7x Год назад

Dog & coyote tracks have claw marks in the dirt. Kitties ... not so much. Maybe claw points, but not usually

@TheHypnotstCollector 2 года назад

This is the Dirty Devil River? Access is via the old Biddlecomb ranch, (don't know current name)? . I had a motorcycle break just before the ranch..... had to walk 14 miles back to Hahns Flat area. In August.

@TheTrekPlanner 2 года назад

The Dirty Devil River is at the very bottom of this area I was exploring. Can't imagine breaking a motorcycle and having to walk 14 miles!

@TheHypnotstCollector 2 года назад

@@TheTrekPlanner the important thing is to Keep Walking! and carry water.

@TheTrekPlanner 2 года назад

@@TheHypnotstCollector haha I guess that's the only option you would have!

@user-wm3bf7pi3u 3 месяца назад

I saw the barbed wire and wondered about the dates, turns out Butch was 1 year old when it was invented. Also some of the names at the start, there were a lot of Spencer's from 1956-2009, was there a member of the gang with that name and the kids keep coming back?

@modestoca25 10 месяцев назад

Do you have any sources for any of this being connected to Butch Cassidy?

@Dragnous420 8 месяцев назад

Those are coyote not cougar, cougar heels dont form into a triangle like that. They have 2 arches at the front of the heel and 3 along the rear of it. K9 species form that triangle with the single arch at the front and 2 along the rear.

@coldeb8911 3 года назад

Greetings from the UK.. Quick Question: Does anyone maintain and help preserve the site?, over here in the UK it would probably fall into the hands of 'The National Trust' or 'English Heritage', do you guys over there have have something similar?

@TheTrekPlanner 3 года назад

Thank you for the comment and or stopping by our channel! We do have something similar here in the states called the National Register of Historic Places, unfortunately, this site isn't listed there. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are owners of the land, but as far as I know they don't claim this is as Butch Cassidy's hideout, thus it has limited protections. I believe it should merit some protection from the BLM, but they let ranchers and cattle use it and consequently damage the area.

@unrulyjulie4382 Год назад

@@TheTrekPlanner ... I didn't know that the BLM owned it. I was surprised that you would be able to explore where someone ran their cattle. It makes sense since it's not private property. Too bad it's not protected, even if a "famous" outlaw didn't use it.

@TheTrekPlanner Год назад

@@unrulyjulie4382 I'm surprised they don't at least put a fence around some of the parts to keep cattle out of it.

@susannenerad9851 Год назад

Yeah the BLM is good at letting the ranchers cattle destroy the land, sad

@toughenupfluffy7294 Год назад

I don't remember where I saw it, but I swear one of the Robber's Roost gang members had the nickname 'Frenchy.' Or maybe I'm thinking of Billy the Kid.

@coppertopv365 3 месяца назад

Was Butch Cassidy related to Bonnie Parker?

@randomvintagefilm273 Год назад

Was that black cow lost??

@random22026 Год назад

From 5:30 to 5:40: I swear, it sounds like you caught some paranormal whispering! It's not you, because it carries on, even while you are talking...🤔😮😮 Headphones give clarity--sounds like that corral is wrangling spirits as well!

@Jk21053 Год назад

Weird

@random22026 Год назад

@@Jk21053 Seriously weird. Slow the playback speed down: a female voice at 5:32 whispers 'Help me'...at 5:37 another whisper can be heard.

@Jk21053 Год назад

@@random22026 slowed down I can clearly hear help me WTF

@random22026 Год назад

@@Jk21053 Dude--right?! Can't believe he didn't hear it in the moment! The wind must have been strong that day...😲😲😱😱

@ibstryder4736 Год назад

I follow you

@normanriggs848 11 месяцев назад

Never having been there this seems like a stupid thing for me to say. BUT, it doesn't look like a very secure place to hide especially if they kept their horses with them. Winter would probably be worse. Just one guys thoughts.

@thomasmaughan4798 11 месяцев назад

Outside of the canyon is a vast reach of sandy desert with no trees and nearly flat. You could see someone coming from a long distance. The canyons are a maze.

@markmark2080 10 месяцев назад

If you haven't found it on google earth/maps yet, it's 17.5 miles almost due east of Hanksville, Utah... Back in the day about as remote/desolate an area one could find, sorry place to have to hang out unless your life depended on it...

@user-ml6dk8sk4e 4 месяца назад

Looks like a rough way to live ! Outlaws 🤠 life wan’t at all like the movies 🎥 paint it to be ! 🎭💋🙀👵🏻😱🖖🏼👽🐲

@alisonbeswick3971 Год назад

At about 5.38ish there's a ghostly voice

@DD-fj2ut 2 года назад

Lot of cow action on the area..

@TheTrekPlanner 2 года назад

yeah, there were cowpies old and new all over 😕

@TrulyUnfortunate 5 месяцев назад

If you poor water or piss on those indecipherable petros they come out much clearer.

@robertmclean9737 2 года назад

The Capped Pipe with a Handle on it was for People to Drink and you didn't even Check it out. Vandalism on all the Rocks was sad to see, at least it wasn't Done where there are Petroglyphs.

@dugfern 8 месяцев назад

cattle suck

@elmerfudd7674 10 месяцев назад

Just because you found a fireplace and chimney doesnt mean there was a cabin. My great grandfather lived in a dugout in the hill on the property he homesteaded for two years. It had a chimney and fireplace similiiar to that. Just used it for cooking etc.