Butch Cassidy Wild Bunch Caches
Verdict summary
PinPoint Treasure lists Butch Cassidy Wild Bunch Caches as unrecovered — no verified recovery has been published. The Wild Bunch operated from Robbers Roost and Hole-in-the-Wall — most of their take was hidden in canyon country. A source-origin review has not been completed for this case, so the earliest traceable teller is UNKNOWN. The published search constraint is Robbers Roost, Utah; Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming. Estimated value is reported as stated by its source: Multiple unknown caches.
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch conducted bank and train robberies across the Mountain West from the 1890s into the early 1900s. Multiple caches are referenced in period accounts in Robbers Roost (UT) and Hole-in-the-Wall (WY).
Case overview: estimated value Multiple unknown caches; current status unrecovered; era 1890s–1900s.
Search area: Robbers Roost, Utah; Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming
Best modern approach: Slickrock canyon LiDAR survey + period-document triangulation.
Evidence and provenance: Period Pinkerton reports; Tipton train robbery 1900 ($55K, mostly recovered); Wilcox train robbery 1899 ($30K, partially recovered); Robbers Roost cache oral history.
Legal notes: Mostly BLM land. Recreational detecting permitted outside ARPA sites.
Source origin: a source-origin review has not been completed for this case, so the earliest traceable teller is recorded as UNKNOWN.
Why this case is worth researching: Butch Cassidy Wild Bunch Caches pairs a documented historical event with an unrecovered-cache claim, which is what the PinPoint Treasure pipeline is built to test — cross-referencing archival sources, geology, mining records, and 1-meter LiDAR terrain where coverage exists. Every claim on this page carries an evidence grade, and grades are never raised to fill a gap.
Recommended workflow for the Butch Cassidy Wild Bunch Caches case: (1) read the primary sources and establish which of them are independent of each other, (2) run the cipher engine on any coded material, (3) scan the highest-probability bounding box with LiDAR where coverage exists, (4) cross-check anomalies against NDVI vegetation stress and iron-oxide satellite signatures, and (5) confirm land status before any field work.