Cave Treasures #2 = Outlaws & Scoundrels

Outlaws & Scoundrels that roamed the Old West include famous bandits and no-gooders such as Billy the Kid, the Wild Bunch, Jesse James, Sam Bass, Soapy Smith and Mountain Charley.

With little to no law enforcement in this wild land, they reaped a harvest of treasures from Stagecoach and Train robberies, Wagon Train marauding, Bank robberies, running scams and highway holdups. It’s reported their hideouts continually changed so that their stashed loot was not all in one place. Often times they were arrested, shot or hanged before much of it could be retrieved.

Like today and all of history, Scoundrels have unfortunately always been more than abundant. But, in history, they could often get away with their lies, cheating, tricks, and cons for much longer than they can today, as they moved from place to place, repeating the same old tricks before another new audience. Sometimes, they changed their names, but often weren’t even required to, as back in the days of the Old West, most people didn’t ask questions of a newcomer’s past. From pimps, to card sharks, shell game artists, and simple picket pockets, here you’ll find a wealth of unsavory characters in American History.

Geocache Instructions:

This mystery cache leads you on a tiny journey to some of those “stash holes” hidden in the cliffs of a Soda Creek tributary, near an old pioneer road. This is a 4-stage multi-cache. The first 3 stages require solving a puzzle to retrieve the advancing coords.

There is no physical cache container at the initial coordinates. The published coordinates are for limited shoulder parking to access the trail. It can be easily missed because it sits on the left shoulder at the apex of a hairpin turn. A bit more shoulder parking can be found preceding it at N39 41.091 W105 24.152

The beginning Stage #1 coords can be found by answering the following questions based on the lives of these Outlaws and Scoundrels. Latitude will be found by answering questions associated with female outlaws, and Longitude will be found by answering questions based on male outlaws. After answering the questions, place the numbers associated with each answer in the following formula: If there is no right answer it is a Zero.

N 39 AB.CDE

W 105 VW.XYZ

A] Anne Bassett (1878-1956) was the daughter or ranch owners at Brown's Hole, near the Wyoming-Colorado-Utah border. Bassett became a "member" of 2] Bummers gang, 3] Wolcott’s Regulators, 4] The Wild Bunch 5] The Innocents

B] Belle Starr, the “Outlaw Queen” hooked up with the likes 1] the Rio Grande Posse 2] Black Jack Ketchum, 3] The High Fives, 4] The Five Joaquins

C] Pearl Hart, aka: Pearl Bywater, was 6] a Cattle rustler, 7] a Bank Robber, 8] a Gun Slinger for hire, 9] a Stagecoach robber.

D] Ellen Watson, or Cattle Kate, was hanged as an alleged 5] Cattle rustler, 6] Horse Thief, 7] was innocent 8] covered for her husband.

E] Laura Bullion (1876-1961) - the Thorny Rose - was born into a life of crime. Her father, a Native American, was a bank robber, and Bullion, after spending her teenage years as a prostitute, joined a famous outlaw gang and became known as their “Rose.” The gang was 3] Billy the Kid’s Rustlers, 4] Jesse James gang of train robbers, 5] the Black Hills Bandits, 6] The Hole-in-the-wall gang.

V] Harry Longabaugh, or "Sundance Kid" (1863-1911) 2] ran with the Hole-in-the-wall Gang, 3] ran with Jesse James, 4] ran with The Cowboys, 5] ran with Cherokee Bill.

W] Soapy Smith lived in Denver in the 1880s and 4] famous bunko man, 5] organized an inside bank robbery, 6] was once a lawman, 7] ran for Governor.

X] Jack Slade was 2] a stage driver on the Overland Trail, 3] a ruthless gun slinger, 4] led a gang of desperados, 5] was a highway man

Y] Tom Horn 1] robbed stores and post offices, 2] was a Train Robber, 3] disguised himself as a Pinkerton Agent and U.S. Marshall, 4] pillaged homes and raped women.

Z] Butch Cassidy, leader of the Wild Bunch (1896-1901), was one of the most acclaimed outlaws that ever lived with the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American History. He 1] Wore masks made from restaurant napkins, 2] once ran with Billy the Kid, 3] was a high stakes gambler, 4] married Ann Bassett.

You can check your solution here : Geochecker.com

For help, look here: Legends of America Outlaws OR here: Legends of Wild Bunch

GEOCACHE CLUE: All stages are on the WEST side of the stream. Stage #1 is about 10 feet in from parking. Stage 2 is about 20 feet up from that. The second 2 stages are a bit further up the stream and are also about 10 feet apart. All stages are not far from the stream and not hard to find but may need some geosense. Because of the canyon rocks and forest, the coords can be very jumpy and a bit hard to pin down. It may take some patience.

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