San Rafael Desert - Robbers Roost Area Drive & Fly - South Central Utah
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The Robbers Roost was an outlaw hideout in southeastern Utah used mostly by Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch gang in the closing years of the Old West.
The hideout was considered ideal because of the rough terrain. It was easily defended, difficult to navigate into without detection, and excellent when the gang needed a month or longer to rest and lie low following a robbery. While hiding out at Robbers Roost, Elzy Lay and Butch Cassidy first formed the Wild Bunch gang. The Wild Bunch, early on led by Cassidy and his closest friend Elzy Lay, developed contacts inside Utah that gave them easy access to supplies of fresh horses and beef, most notably the ranch owned by outlaw sisters Ann and Josie Bassett. The gang constructed cabins inside Robbers Roost to help shield them from the harsh winters. There, they stored weapons, horses, chickens, and cattle.
Pursuing lawmen of the day never discovered the site of the hideout. The outlaws held each other to strict confidentiality regarding its location. Only five women are known to have ever been allowed inside Robbers Roost: Ann and Josie Bassett, the Sundance Kid's girlfriend Etta Place, one of Elzy Lay's girlfriends Maude Davis, and gang member Laura Bullion.
Charlie Siringo wrote that Robbers' Roost was "fifty miles east of Hanksville, where the 'Wild Bunch' used twenty-dollar gold pieces for poker chips." He goes on to write the Wild Bunch used Robbers' Roost as "headquarters for several years until Joe Bush and a posse of Salt Lake City officers made a raid on the 'Roost' and killed some of the gang."
Robbers Roost Canyon, a remote tributary of the Dirty Devil River, is named after this hideout.
Today, Robbers Roost attracts hikers, backpackers, horseback riders, and all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts. Many steep, narrow slot canyons popular with technical canyoneers are found in Robbers Roost.
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As always I enjoy your videos, informative, well shown, and to the point. I spent 3 weeks in Utah Aug. 2023 and watched several of your videos before I went to help plan my trip. I'm from Indiana so we don't have anything close to this landscape. Keep up the good work and I look forward to future videos. Best Wishes.
David...Thanks for the wonderfull comment and viewing our channel. It is sincerely appreciated! In our videos we try to inform and advise as to what we experienced and hopefully get that across to the viewer. Thanks again David!
I greatly enjoyed this video. I first discovered Utah's wonders on my first Grand Circle motorcycle trip back in the '70s, coming in from Colorado on I-70 through Green River and down desolate 24 to Hanksville, I wasn't impressed. After Hanksville on toward Torrey everything changed and I came home with my mind blown, been in love with Utah ever since. I've seen a lot of the state during my paper map days and now in my old age enjoy exploring places I missed via YT and google earth, what a treat. This greater Maze region between the River and the highways I haven't been in although I've studied it greatly via maps and GE, your video is the first I've seen showing the area between 24 and the Hans Flat Ranger Station, although there are many of inside the park. One has to appreciate the ordeal of travel in southern Utah 'back in the day', and I never cease to be amazed at all the trails the post WW2 uranium prospectors made in their quest for that radioactive 'gold'... I recall on that first trip, while having lunch along side a road, we were watching an eagle soaring high overhead and envying the view he had without a clue of what future tech would bring...
@markmark2080...Thanks for the great comment and story of your travels. I can relate to the part about the eagle as that is one of the reasons I started to fly the drone was to get a "Birds-eye View". We will be back to this area in the Fall of 2024 and we have several overlooks to explore and get birds-eye views.Thanks again for commenting and viewing our channel. It is sincerely appreciated!
@@cactushill In a YT channel called GravityKnightFlying, he loves to land his little STOL plane on remote primitive strips and anywhere else possible. In his videos he has landed twice at the Henry Mountains and three locations in the canyons about 10 miles south of your final view point, you might enjoy... I enjoy searching out and pin pointing these spots... That Poison Spring route into the southern Maze District from near the north end of the Henry Mountains intrigues me, is there a more desolate region in all of the USA? Cheers
Great video, I love this area! I believe the mountain range you referred to at 3:35 is the Henry mountains. Thousand Lakes and Boulder mountains are further away and visible at 3:30. The Road basically points right between them. Maybe that's what you meant.
@bakanaman2...Yes, I was a little late in pointing out Thousand Lakes and Boulder Mountain. When I said it the camera was looking at the Henry Mountains. I was kind of surprised that we could see those 2 mountains considering the distance we were from them and it was also kind of hazy that day. Thanks for commenting and viewing our channel...It is sincerely appreciated!
Thank you for this incredibly well thought out and presented video. I just got back from a week in the Hanksville/Capitol Reef area taking photographs. My first visit to that part of the country. I was tempted to try this spot based on a couple of reviews, but I skipped it so I guess that will have to wait for my next trip. Driving along highway 95 or highway 24 there were so many roads that turned off that looked interesting but were unknown to me. Now I have one that I know is interesting! 😉
Yes, there are so many roads/trails to explore in the area. Have seen our video on the Poison Springs trail. It is one of our favorite trails. Well, thanks for the wonderfull comment and viewing our channel. It is sincery appreciated!
@@cactushill Thanks. I'll check out the Poison Springs video. Yet another place I heard of while travelling to the other places I had actually planned to visit on my trip!
@@JGNoPlanetB We went in the fall and it was beautiful. If you are an "Overlander" after you cross the Dirty Devil river there a multitude of places to camp and many places to explore. This whole area is incredibly beautiful...Enjoy!