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"The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost"

"Robbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884.

The impenetrable wastes and wilds of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by canyons along the Green and Colorado rivers and bounded on the west by the Dirty Devil, discouraged lawmen from pursuit.

Growing up on a ranch that included Robbers Roost, author Pearl Baker heard many of the legends about - and talked to many who remembered - the notorious Wild Bunch. In the 1890s they spread over Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Arizona rustling cattle, stealing horses, robbing banks and trains, and often taking cover at Robbers Roost."

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