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One of the most beautiful regions in Wyoming -- with massive walls of red rock defining its boundaries -- this was also prime outlaw country. Hidden behind its red walls, rustlers did a roaring business in stolen cattle and horses. And because most lawmen were afraid to enter "the hole," many a wanted man was safe from pursuit here. In the early 1890s, Butch Cassidy owned a ranch here, and later the area became a way station on the Outlaw Trail, used by Cassidy's Wild Bunch and by many others who found themselves in need of a perfect hideout. The actual "hole in the wall" is a niche in a canyon wall that was used to move stolen cattle and horses east and west, through a seemingly solid barrier of stone. |
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