They say that this was a Butch Cassidy hide-out. While Losee Canyon is only about 25 or 30 miles south of Cassidy's hometown, Circleville, it is hard to imagine he and his gang hiding out down here: During much of his career he operated fairly openly in southern Wyoming and the Brown's Park area of northeastern Utah. Even the famed Robber's Roost would have been more convenient to the Wild Bunch than Losee Canyon. In any case, we didn't see any sign of Cassidy or the Sundance Kid on this day. Of course, as Valerie pointed out, they would both be around 140 years old by now. Whether they survived the shootout in Bolivia or not, it is doubtful that either of them is still with us. Besides, given that ole Butch felt that the mountain west was too crowded in 1890, it is probably better that he didn't see the stream of tour buses whistling up Highway 12 all afternoon.
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