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Rick:
We grew up on

wild west stories.

Nelson:
Butch cassidy was

one of the last of his kind.

Jameson:
The daltons, they had $20,000

from their train robberies.

Sandoval:
They needed to get rid

of the gold.

And they did it.

They would have stashed
some loot at the hideout,

- and you're gonna go find it?

gary:
This is like a dream come true

-for me.
-Yeah.

--ooh.

I got it. It's an oldie.

All while we were growing up,

my brother and I
were fascinated

with finding treasure.

Rick:
Pirate treasure,

cursed treasure.

Civil war gold.

- -since then,
our work on oak island

has shown us
there's a world of mysteries...

-Whoa.
-...Waiting to be explored.

So, we like to reach out
to other treasure hunters.

X marks the spot, right there.
Brilliant.

-Marty: We want to hear
their stories...
-That's right.

-...And share our insights.
-"ill-gotten gains."

-rick: And who knows...
-Gary: I got it.

...Maybe we can help them
with their search.

Marty:
Not only in america.

Wow. That is gold.

-Rick: But all over the world.
-Yeah!

Marty:
Beyond oak island.

Matty:
You know, what's amazing

is that no matter
how much information we compile

on these
treasure-based stories,

it's like there's just
more and more.

And a lot of them.

Yeah. And I'm always surprised
along the way,

- of-of just how many twists
and turns...

...And yet similarities
these things have.

-Rick: Hey, there he is.

- Hello, chaps.

-gary drayton.
-How you doing?

-My mate from another state.
-Hey, gary.

Gary:
How you doing, chaps?

-You find anything today?
-Not today.

But what I have found

is probably a really good
potential treasure hunt.

What's that all about?

I got a call from bill betenson,

who is the great-grandnephew
of butch cassidy,

of butch cassidy
and the sundance kid fame.

Wow!

No kidding.

Gary:
His great grandmother

was butch cassidy's sister.

And he wants me
to go out to utah

and-and search a place
called robber's roost,

one of the hangouts of butch
and his gang, the wild bunch.

The conjecture, I suppose,
is they would have stashed

some loot at the hideout
and you're gonna go find it.

Yeah, because these guys

were prolific train robbers
and bank robbers

and when they stole stuff,
it was

mainly $20 gold pieces

and they're heavy.

So when they're getting these

-sacks of gold coins,
you can't...
-Both: Yeah.

...Take those around with you.

You would have to bury the god

and this hideout
of theirs, robber's roost,

is really remote and so
we're gonna see what's there.

You're not enthusiastic about

- doing that, are you?

you know, for me,
it conjures up memories of

reading these stories
as-as a child.

I mean, we grew up
on wild west stories.

But what we really experienced
as kids was the old tv shows

because you go
to the television

and it becomes more real.

I mean, I was actually there.

You smelled the gun smoke.

- -you heard the guns go off.

You saw the horses
race down the trail.

It came alive.

And so butch cassidy,
obviously, the question

-presents itself,
"have you seen the movie?"
-I have, mate.

You know, I grew up in England,
and that's what we watched.

All the american movies.

think you used enough
dynamite there, butch?

Announcer:
They robbed trains.

Looted banks.

-Manos arriba.
-They got 'em up!

You're so damn smart,
you read it!

Announcer:
They were outlaws running out

of time and out of space.

-You jump first.
-No, I said.

- What's the matter with you?

you know, it's a great movie.
I mean, it's

-a classic movie.
-Yeah.

-Yeah.
-Marty: But it's a funny thing.

While we tend to romanticize

-the wild, wild west.
-Gary: And we all root

for, I know it sounds bad,
but the bad guys a lot.

-The underdog, for sure.
-Yeah.

You know, if the authorities

are zeroing in on somebody,

you kind of want them
to prevail, you know?

I mean, you sort of do.

You know what's interesting
about the movie.

And we've all seen it, right,
you know, other than,

I'm sure they probably didn't
look exactly the same

as robert redford
and paul newman,

I guess the film is rather

historically accurate
to what happened to them.

- Yeah, yeah.
-I think so, yeah.

Narrator:
During the heyday
of the old west,

institutions like railroads
and banks were considered

easy targets for outlaws.

They usually had large caches
of gold and silver--

especially due to the payrolls
required to pay

the thousands of men who were
working on the railroads

and the increasing number
of settlers who were bringing

all of their earthly belongings
with them from back east.

A better-than-average bandit
could pocket thousands

of dollars with each hold-up,
while the average wage earner

was making $10 a week.

But for outlaws
like butch and sundance,

robbing trains
and sticking up banks

was getting harder
and harder to do...

As automobiles and
modern telephones were rapidly

replacing horses and telegraphs
as tools of law enforcement.

Nelson:
Butch cassidy was one
of the last of his kind.

He comes onto
the scene at a time

when the old west is closing.

When the ranches are
being consolidated,

when the railroads are
getting wise to outlaws

trying to steal
from their trains.

Hansen:
Butch cassidy never robbed
from poor people.

He only robbed
from corporations, usually,

but also very wealthy people.

And he was famous at one time
for robbing a train.

And a person was objecting that
he was doing that, and he said

simply, "you have great wealth
and we have great need."

narrator:
After several
successful robberies,

butch cassidy and his gang

set their sights
on what they thought

could be their last
great heist--

the wilcox train robbery.

Nelson:
On the morning of June 2, 1899,

the union pacific
overland flyer,

which is a passenger train,
is making

its way outside of wilcox.

And in the distance, they see

men holding red lanterns,

which is a signal that
the tracks are out ahead.

So the train

comes to a halt, but of course,
it isn't workers

from the railroad
with those red lanterns,

it's members of the wild bunch
who quickly enter the engine,

disarm the engineer
and begin methodically

to go about robbing the train.

That includes separating
the passenger cars;

using dynamite not once
but twice to blow up the safe

to get at the money.

narrator:
The gang made off

with $50,000 in cash and gold,

which would be the equivalent

of a whopping
$1.5 million today.

The robbery was
the most famous of its time--

a fact which only served
to place the gang directly

in the crosshairs
of the authorities.

Nelson:
So by that point,
the railroads are fed up

with having been
robbed repeatedly

by this one particular gang.

Narrator:
A $3,000 reward

for each of the bandits
was immediately offered

and a posse of nearly 100 men-

including members
of the infamous

pinkerton national
detective agency--

were rounded up to ruthlessly
hunt down cassidy and his gang

and bring them to justice.

Nelson:
The pinkertons are a sign
that things are changing.

The pinkertons, by this point,
have a large database

of criminal photographs.

Just as the old west
is consolidating,

so is law enforcement
and government.

Ernst:
If the pinkertons
wanted you badly enough,

they were gonna find you.

They were relentless,
they were vicious.

They were just as bad as the
outlaws and in some ways worse.

Narrator:
With the pinkertons
hot on their trail,

the wild bunch needed
to find a safe place

to stash their stolen gold.

The intention was to come

back for it after things
had cooled down.

To escape the posse, cassidy
hightailed it to south america,

along with fellow outlaw
the sundance kid,

and sundance's wife,
etta place.

Nelson:
There's some speculation about
why they chose south america.

One idea is that
it would be easy pickings

for experienced outlaws,

who'd be able to make
a couple of quick scores

and then live comfortably
for the rest of their lives.

Narrator:
In 1908, seven years
after butch and sundance

escaped to south america,

it was reported that
two masked american bandits

robbed a payroll in bolivia.

It wasn't long
before suspicions fell upon

the two former leaders
of the wild bunch.

This is not a place
where they're

familiar with the territory.

They don't know the terrain.

They don't know the people.

They don't have any allies.

So, ultimately,
they have nowhere to run.

Narrator:
On the evening of November 6,

bolivian soldiers and police

surrounded the pair
in a small mountain lodge.

A shootout ensued.

But when the dust cleared,
the fate of the two outlaws

wasn't entirely certain.

Nelson:
We don't have, let's say,
the most reliable account

of the ultimate downfall
of butch and sundance.

We have to rely on the reports

of the bolivian authorities.

Narrator:
Although most historians
insist that butch cassidy

and the sundance kid
met their fate

on a dusty bolivian street,

there are a growing number
who have become convinced that

not only did at least
one of them survive...

But that they actually returned
to america with the intention

of retrieving
their hidden treasure.

Bill: My great grandma,
butch's younger sister,

said that he wasn't killed
in bolivia and she claimed

that he came back and visited
the family in 1925.

Narrator:
If butch cassidy survived,

was he able to claim
the thousands in stolen gold

that reportedly
lies somewhere hidden

near his gang's
infamous hideout?

Or if not, could it mean

that the gold
is still out there

waiting to be found?

Sandoval:
Right here is where

it conjures up memories
of wild west stories.

It enflamed the imagination
because

when you think about it,

the wild, wild west
and the participants--

there are some very interesting
historical figures,

and we're dealing from
a legend perspective, right?

Marty:
You know, the wild west--

there's all kinds
of treasure stories out there,

because there's all kinds
of people moving money around.

And you had
gold rushes going on,

you had people
getting it legitimately,

and people wanting
what the other people got.

You know, I've always been,
since I was a kid,

captivated by the west.

And one of my favorite stories,

just for their sheer audacity

of what they attempted
is the dalton gang.

-Absolutely.
-Marty: Yeah.

Matty:
They took a big swing, and what

ended up happening
to them is one of the...

It's one of the great stories
of the american west, really.

Narrator:
Coffeyville, kansas.

October 5, 1892.

A gang of bank robbers
that included four

missouri-born brothers--
known as "the dalton gang"--

prepared to carry out
one of the most brazen crimes

ever attempted
in the annals of the wild west.

The plan is to rob two banks

simultaneously
in coffeyville, kansas,

which are
on opposite sides of the street.

Three members
of the gang will hit one bank,

two will hit the other,
and then they'll escape

with the largest haul
that they've ever had.

Narrator:
Before the day ended,

the streets would be soaked
in blood,

and a fortune in gold and
silver coins would lay buried

and unclaimed in a campsite,

somewhere south
of the crime scene.

nelson:
In the month leading up
to the coffeyville raid,

the daltons rob two trains
in oklahoma, taking

anywhere between $9,000
and $20,000.

Now, the night before
the coffeyville raid, they camp

at a place called
"onion creek,"

near
the kansas-oklahoma border.

And it's there that the legend

of the lost treasure
of the daltons

emerges.

Jameson:
While they were in camp,

they had $20,000
from their train robberies,

and they buried it
at the campsite.

They didn't want to burden
their horses down with...

With this $20,000 that was,

by the way,
in gold and silver coins.

Today, that's about 20 millio.

And after they robbed
the banks,

they were gonna return
to the onion creek campsite,

retrieve
what they had buried there

and then flee into oklahoma.

Narrator:
The next morning,

the gang awoke early and rode

towards what would become
their date with disaster.

Nelson:
It may be that somehow

the town got word

that the daltons were coming
and were ready for them.

Barndollar:
A young man thought
he recognized them,

and he ran in, and he said,
"that's the daltons!"

mccoy:
The townspeople immediately

knew it was the dalton gang,

and the alarm went up.

Nelson:
The citizens of coffeyville

promptly arm themselves and
prepare to greet the daltons

after they emerge
from the two banks.

Narrator:
Emmett and bob dalton entered

the first bank, where the
robbery proceeded as planned.

Grat dalton and two other gang
members hit the second bank,

where the bank teller tried
to stall them.

Mccoy:
Grat-- we would charitably
call him "dimwitted."

he wasn't good
at thinking on his feet,

and the teller
in the condon bank told him

that he couldn't
open the vault yet,

that it was on a time lock.

So grat decided to wait.

Narrator:
Outside the banks, the number

of armed citizens swelled
to more than a hundred.

Hansen:
They wanted to defend

the honor of coffeyville.

Jameson:
And in those days,

there weren't
insurance companies that

covered the loss.

If a bank was robbed,
people lost their money.

Narrator:
It was now just
a matter of time before

all hell broke loose on the
streets of coffeyville, kansas.

When the outlaws emerged,

the townspeople greeted them
with a hail of gunfire.

What happens after that
is a melee

that is very difficult
to describe.

throngs of citizens
shooting at the outlaws,

the outlaws shooting back,

blood flying everywhere.

Total mayhem.

Jameson:
A couple of them had climbed

aboard their horses
and were riding away.

Some of the loot was spilling
out of the saddlebags.

Some of it was dropped
in the street.

It was
a very adventurous attempt...

...But a very unsuccessful
bank robbery.

Narrator:
When the smoke cleared,

four citizens of coffeyville
were killed.

Four of the five dalton
gang members also lay dead--

their bodies later displayed
in public

as a warning
to other would-be outlaws.

the only survivor is emmett.

He survives being shot

anywhere from 23

to 27 times.

Lives to stand trial.

His hospital bed wheeled
into the courtroom every day.

Jameson:
Emmett was found guilty

of his nefarious activities

and sentenced to life in prison.

Narrator:
When emmett was released
in 1907,

after serving 14 years,

authorities believed
he would lead them

to the onion creek
treasure site.

They were wrong.

Nelson:
He knows
people are following him,

but when asked, he says
that he had no intention

to retrieve the treasure,
because to him, it was even

cursed in a way,
so, he had no intention

of ever finding the money again.

Jameson:
As far as we know, that $20,000

that was stolen in 1892,
in gold and silver coins,

is still buried
near that onion creek campsite.

Narrator:
Did the dalton gang
leave behind a fortune

in gold and silver coins
near onion creek?

To this day,

treasure hunters continue
to search this barren land

for the priceless cache
that has remained hidden

for more than a century.

Will that treasure
ever be discovered?

Only time will tell.

And you know what's interesting
about that is emmett dalton

went into real estate,
went to hollywood.

He was an advisor on movies.

But he's still stalked,
basically, by the law,

because they believed
that there was a treasure

at onion creek,
and he wouldn't go back.

And it's interesting,

that aspect of,
would you want to go back

to the scene
of the crime type of thing?

You know, some people,
I guess...

Yeah, some seem
to get pulled back into it,

and some think, "nah,
I've had enough of that now."

-right, which is incredible.
-Gary: Yeah, and for him

not to go back, knowing
that there's treasure there.

There are some parts
of your life

I think you want
to just put behind you.

In our own case,

my father was brought up
in an orphanage.

And so, one day, I said, "geez,
dad, maybe we ought to go back

to where you were raised
and just sort of check it out."

and he looked at me,
and he said, "nah."

-yeah.
-It was a big part of his life,

but it wasn't the happiest time
of his life.

-Exactly.
-Yeah.
-Marty: But then I think,

emmett dalton-- he just
didn't want to go back there.

I mean, picture it, really.
Picture that you do have

a new life,
and you're making money,

and you've got
a legitimate life.

And you think to yourself,
"ten kinds of hell

"that I'm going to create
if I go back

and dig up this treasure."

I mean, you're gonna really
wreck your life, right?

Because you might
even go back to jail.

-Right.
-It's true.

Yeah, I'd go back.

- All right.

joaquin murrieta

you know, the wild, wild west
and the participants--

what were they?
They were land pirates, really.

-Yes. Yeah.
-That's what they were.

I mean, the same romantic ideas,

the same sense of, "I'm thumbing
my nose at the man."

I mean, you went
from an ocean environment

to a land environment.

-That is true.
-I mean, these people

were actually every bit
as scheming, every bit

as consumed by the "acquisition"
of "ill-gotten gains."

it was rascally rogues.

-Modern-day robin hoods.
-Marty: Exactly.

-Yup.
-Was there one you gravitate to?

Was there one that stands out?

I mean, the real-life zorro,
if you will,

is to me, a very interesting
historical figure.

You know, he was an individual
named joaquin murrieta.

He was kind of a cross
between robin hood and

zorro, right?

The legends go that he would

steal from the rich
and give to the poor.

It was less about
the acquisition of treasure

for himself and his gang
than it was about,

shall we call it,
the "redistribution of wealth"?

Right. Right, right.

I think
there's substance to that.

Yeah, there's a...
There's even a geographic area

where they think
that he buried the treasure.

Narrator:
High in the diablo
mountain range,

13 miles
from coalinga, california,

sit three ominous
sandstone outcroppings

known as the joaquin rocks.

They're named
for joaquin murrieta,

the robin hood-type bandit who
later served as the inspiration

for the legendary character
of zorro.

He's the inspiration for zorro,
because in the process

of hunting down those
that did him wrong,

he would take gold
from those that had it

and give it to needy people.

And in mexico,
"zorro" means "fox."

and they're very conniving,
very smart.

They normally have
two or three pathways to escape.

Narrator:
But for legions
of treasure hunters,

joaquin was a gold miner
turned outlaw

who left behind a cache of god

valued at more than four
and a half million dollars.

And there are many who believe

his gold still lies hidden

somewhere near
the three massive stone pillars

that bear his name.

Garza:
Three rocks.

If you get on top
of those three rocks,

you can see
for miles and miles around.

You can see people coming
from 40, 50 miles away.

It was very important
to have a good lookout.

That's why they would keep
all their gold there.

Narrator:
The dramatic life
of joaquin murrieta reads

like it was ripped from the
pages of an old western novel.

No one can say
for certain what is fact

and what is fiction.

Garza:
Actually, for every true fact

that you find about joaquin,
there's about five lies.

Narrator:
The story most generally
agreed upon

has murrieta migrating
from mexico to california

in the late 1840s

to mine for gold.

Hansen:
When murrieta started,

he was a cowhand, or a vaquer.

They were paid very poorly--
sometimes a dollar a day,

sometimes two dollars a day.

And so,
he was tempted to go off

and do something
for quick money.

And the gold rush was huge

in california,
and especially huge

for people who thought
about easy money.

About 300,000 came out.

They're all hoping to get rich,
and some of them did get rich.

Narrator:
Joaquin and his older brother,
jesus,

reportedly amassed a fortune
in gold.

But jealous american
prospectors attacked them,

and falsely accused jesus
of being a horse thief.

Garza:
His older brother was lynched.

Joaquin came out to defend him,

and they horsewhipped him.

his wife also came out
to help him,

and then, they knocked her down
on the floor,

stripped her of her clothes
and gang-raped her.

42 of them.

And then, she bled to death.

Joaquin wanted
to file a complaint.

And they got the sheriff,
and the sheriff told him,

"can't do anything for you."

they wouldn't give him justice.

They told him to forget it.

Narrator:
But joaquin murrieta
did not forget it.

Instead, he made
a fateful decision--

to devote his life
to avenging the murders

of his wife and brother.

Garza:
Joaquin got together
with his brothers,

his cousins and his neighbors,

and they were gonna
get justice.

Of the 42 that gang-raped
his wife, he got 41 of them.

And in the process,
when they killed them,

they stole their gold,
and they became outlaws.

And once they were outlaws,

everything was... Fair game.

Narrator:
Murrieta and his band
of desperados

rode through the san joaquin
and sacramento valleys,

serving up vigilante justice

as they saw fit.

In doing so, this masked troop

not only became
mexican folk heroes.

They also accumulated
vast sums of gold.

Garza:
This guy stole

over four and a half
million dollars worth of gold.

He did more than jesse james,
billy the kid,

all those other people
all wrapped up together.

They couldn't even
pull up his socks.

Narrator:
The local authorities

were powerless
to stop the thefts.

Eventually, they called
upon the newly-formed

california rangers.

The governor of california
offered a $1,000 cash reward

for joaquin murrieta,
an amount

that would be worth more than
$200,000 in today's currency.

Gamino:
The california rangers,

under the direction
of captain harry love,

were a posse of semi-quasi
law enforcers

that hunted and killed.

Most of the outlaws that he
looked for were turned in dead.

Narrator:
For months, murrieta
and his gang evaded capture

in the isolated mountains near
the present-day city of fresno,

where some say they buried
their treasure.

They knew that they were
being surrounded

by captain love and his army.

They needed to get rid of
the gold, and they hid it.

Narrator:
Eventually,
the california rangers

kidnapped murrieta's
brother-in-law.

They tortured him
until he gave up the location

where the gang was hiding.

Sandoval:
Right here in this riverbed
is where they claim

captain love killed
and beheaded

joaquin murrieta.

Narrator:
To prove that joachin was
actually dead,

his head was preserved
in a jar of alcohol

and exhibited
throughout california,

where viewers paid
one dollar apiece to see it.

Some people, however,
insisted that joaquin murrieta

did not die, and that another
bandit's head was on display.

They believed that murrieta
escaped capture

and made his way safely back
to sonora, mexico.

Some say the famous joaquin
murrieta was never killed,

and died of old age in mexico.

He never came back
to three rocks, as he planned,

to dig his gold
and take it back to mexico.

And so, this is why
the story of his treasure

is still spoken of today.

I think this guy's
pretty cool, right?

I mean, this is
really interesting because

what was he, really?

Was he robin hood,
or was he just robbin'?

That's true with a lot of these
stories, I've noticed, too,

that on one perspective, there's
a group of people that say

"they were a hero
who helped our people."

and there's another group
of people that say, "nope,

just an outlaw
who was taking things..."

well, matty, our own
founding fathers were either

our founding fathers,
or they were traitors.

Right? I mean, what's
ben franklin's famous quote?

"we must all hang together,

or we will surely
all hang separately."

-yeah.
-Because to the british
government,

they were certainly traitors;
that's what they were.

I think I'll agree with that.

it's over, gary.
The war is over.

they almost come up as myths.

The deaths themselves
of these people are often

shrouded in legend and lore,
and, you know,

we don't want these legends
to die a lot of times.

Marty:
No, we don't.

Well, the reality is that
they don't die.

As we would not be sitting

-around this table discussing.
-Yeah.

Marty:
Which brings me
back to my key thing,

whether there's a treasure
or not. Right?

If joaquin died
and his head's in the jar,

then I think his treasure's
out there.

If he escaped
and was living it up in mexico,

he probably took it with him.

Same with butch cassidy.

I mean, there's stories now
that he survived

the bolivian shootout, and he
lived his days in the u.S.

That's what people want
to believe.

And now you're going to bring
that story back to life.

And it would be fantastic if

there really is something
at robbers roost.

I believe there is, mate.
And if you see me come back

riding a bike,

singing "raindrops keep
falling on my head,"

- you'll know I found it.
- -Yeah.

-go get 'em, buddy.
-Go get 'em.
-All right, mate.

-Marty: See you, gary.
-Gary: See you later, chaps.

gary: This is way out
in the boonies for me.

Bill: Well, we're not
off the pavement yet.

Were you born and raised
around here, bill?

Yeah. So I was born in utah.

Actually, fillmore, utah.

Then I had a lot of family
in circleville,

where butch actually lived,
when I was a boy.

Narrator:
Bill betenson,

great-grandnephew
of butch cassidy,

has spent 40 years
retracing every step

cassidy ever took.

Bill:
Butch cassidy,

he's my great-great-uncle.

His younger sister was
my great-grandmother.

So I got to grow up
hearing stories

from my great-grandmother
talking about her brother.

My earliest memories
are going to the premiere

of the famous movie.

And I remember
watching that, thinking,

"this is the coolest."

and so I just continued to dig
into it because of my interest.

Narrator:
Having grown up
with colorful tales

of his ancestor's exploits,
bill is convinced that

even though butch cassidy
may have returned

from south america,

his hidden treasure
may still lie buried

somewhere near cassidy's
hideout in southern utah.

Bill:
He had three key hideouts.

But in visiting
those three hideouts,

robbers roost is probably
the best hideout.

I mean, it's remote
from civilization.

Obscure and well protected.

It takes a lot of effort
to get there.

Even today, it hasn't really
been disturbed a whole lot.

So to me, that would be a great
place to hide a cache of gold.

And there may have been reasos

that they couldn't
get back to it.

Well, I was brought up on
all these old western movies,

-and this is like
a dream come true for me.
-Yeah.

Coming in to butch cassidy
and the sundance kid territory.

Narrator:
Bill betenson is taking gary
to robbers roost.

Although the area
has been searched many times

by professional
treasure hunters,

bill is hoping that
gary's state-of-the-art

metal detector
can yield new evidence

that not only did
the wild bunch use the area

as the gang's hideout,

but also that their
incredible fortune in gold

might still be buried nearby.

Beautiful countryside.

And with the chance of finding

something connected
to butch cassidy.

Narrator:
Tucked between the green, dirty
devil and colorado rivers,

robbers roost boasts
tough terrain

that could be easily defended,

and was near impossible
to navigate

unless you were familiar
with the area.

Gary:
Sweet. So we've got the chance

of finding some gold coins.

Butch liked to deal in gold
over currency

because it was untraceable.

Now, those gold coins
are probably gonna be

the larger gold coins.

The eagles, which is
a ten-dollar gold coin.

Or the double eagles,
$20 gold coins.

Bill:
Yeah, that's what
I always heard about.

It's the $20 double eagles.

Yeah, the story is
that they used to use

$20 gold pieces
as gaming chips.

gary:
I mean, there's got
to be some there.

Bill:
That would be cool
to find. That's for sure.

Gary:
Wow, look at this.

Bill: All right,
let's go find some gold coins.

Bill: All right,
let's go find some gold coins.
Gary:
Wow, this is really,
really rough terrain.

Bill:
Yeah, it's really rugged

and you could die out here.

Gary:
The first thing

that came into my mind

when we stepped out of the car
at robbers roost was, "wow.

I cannot believe
this site is here."

you're driving up
and all of a sudden,

you're in robbers roost,
with all that history.

So this down here
is some of the carvings

I wanted to show you.

Narrator: Carved into the
stone walls that stand above

a natural spring are the names
of a few of the hardy souls

who previously visited
the site.

Pearl baker.

She carved her name in 1920.

And she wrote, of course, the
wild bunch at robbers roost.

So she documented a lot
of the history of the outlaws.

-That's pretty amazing, mate.
-Yeah.

Narrator:
Bill leads gary

deep into the canyon,

where they come upon the only
structure still standing

from the days
of the wild bunch.

Bill:
So, here's the chimney.

Man. That is awesome.

Fantastic that
it's still standing. 1890s.

We might find some
buried treasure around here,

because you don't bury stuff
far from your cabin.

-Okay.
-I'm telling you, mate,

-we're gonna find
something good here.
-All right.

Narrator:
Using a minelab ctx 3030
metal detector

capable of scanning to depths

of as much
as three feet deep underground,

gary methodically combs
the barren landscape

close to where butch cassidy's
cabin once stood.

gary:
You have to grid a site out.

You can't just meander around.

It has to be a nice box pattern.

So, if it makes
a two-way repeatable signal,

I'm digging it.

ooh.

that sounds good.

It's reading two inches.

Just there, mate.
So, if you could dig that out.

Butch cassidy
would have never believed

one of his descendants

would be digging,
looking for his treasure.

you know what that is, mate?

That is a little
horseshoe nail.

- Bill: Yeah.
Shoeing their horses.
-Yep.

That-that's your typical
1800s horseshoe nail.

Yeah, it's got
a lot of corrosion,

so it's definitely old.

-This little nail
is a piece of history.
-Yeah.

This is what
leads you to treasure.

Well, great, yeah,
let's keep going.

Gary:
Those little iron nails tell us

that those guys
were really there,

because those horseshoe nails
are from the late 1800s.

They're the exact things

you want to be finding
at that site.

I'm gonna make
my turnaround here.

just down there, mate.

I'll try to pinpoint it,
so I'll cut down

on the digging for you.

I got it.

It's an oldie as well,
by the look at it.

Is that an oldie, mate?

You were telling me
about those long cartridges.

Bill b:
It is. It's a .40-60.
That is old.

Very cool.

How old do you think that is,
mate? Is that the period...

Yeah, that's the period
of butch's time, yeah.

So that,
that could've been fired

by butch cassidy
or one of the gang members.

Yeah.

- Very good.
-sweet!

Bill:
The .40-60 was invented

for the winchester model 1876,
and that's the same gun

that teddy roosevelt used.

So yeah, that was pretty cool
to find that, for sure.

That's almost as good
as a double eagle.

That is nice.
A little piece of history.

That is really cool, man.

That's worth the trip for me,
right there.

just to find that.
That is cool.

Gary:
I know people have
visited the site,

and it's had a lot of
diggers through the years.

So if you can find an artifact,
what that means

is there's a lot of loot
to be recovered in that area.

You still stand a chance
of finding treasure.

It's not until I've held
those old bullets

and those horseshoe nails
in my hand

-that I'm convinced
there's treasure here.
-Yeah.

And that's what we came here
looking for.

And looking around,
it's-it's a daunting task.

-Yeah.
-We'd have to put some
serious time in.

Spend weeks here,

and do an extensive search
of the area.

There has got to be more here.
I know there's more here.

-Yeah.
-For sure.

All right, mate, it's been fun,
but we've probably,

you know, got to bite
the bullet and leave.

it has been fun.

You're gonna be
seeing me again.

I'm looking forward to it.

there he is. Hello, gary.
How in the heck are you?

I am fantastic.

rick:
So, gary, you know the history,

you know the lore.

You know the reason
why you're there.

But for me, the key question is,

does it actually
feel like you're walking

backwards into time?

Yeah. What is bloody cool
is you are with bill betenson,

one of butch cassidy's
descendants.

You pick up this old
winchester rifle shell

and you put it
in the hand of bill

and you could
see the emotional connection.

That's worth the trip
for me, right there.

Gary, that's-that's very cool.

Here's another question, though.

Do you or bill feel like

there still is a treasure
to be found out there?

Yeah. Bill-bill and I

both believe
there's treasure there.

But it does occur to me

that if the shells
are still there,

then the area must not
have been worked too extensively

by metal detectors
such as yourself.

Which means that the treasure
could still be there, too,

because those shells would
have been picked up previously.

-Exactly, marty.
-Yeah.

You know, gary,
it strikes me that, you know,

you might be, eminently
capable of finding something

that's been missed
in the previous years.

Yeah, because
when I first went there,

I just went
for the good targets.

That was only one area.

It's not till you walk
in that canyon,

and I'm thinking to myself,

"there's so many places

to hide gold coins there."

I don't think you just bury I.

You don't think
they wouldn't have had

a stash of gold coins
in those canyon walls?

When you look around
those canyon walls,

you see all those cubbyholes.

The treasure is probably hiddn

in some crack or hole
in the canyon walls.

I am certain we can find
some gold in robbers roost.

Wow, guys. I mean, gary,
y-you sound really certain,

and when you're certain
on something,

I know that these guys
get very excited.

- Absolutely.

we've got to go back.

hey, gary,
informative as always,

and an emotional boost,
as always, as well.

So thanks a lot,
and we will be in touch.

-Thanks a lot.
-Matty: See you, buddy.

-Thanks, gary.
-See you, gary.
-See you, mates.

There you have it.
I mean, an excited gary drayton.

A positive gary drayton.

He sounds like that treasure
has been stashed.

And how cool is it,
we've got gary,

you know, literally working
with a direct descendent

-of an american legend?
-Marty: Yeah.

-That alone is remarkable. Yes.
-Right?

-Agreed.
-Rick: Yeah. What's interesting

about this is here
you're taking modern science

and you're literally using that
like a time-traveling machine.

-Yeah.
-Right? He's applying
modern science

and literally walking
back in time to-to revisit that.

-I mean, that's pretty cool.
-Yes.

Marty:
Yeah, and I think
we probably only scratched

-the surface.
-That's what I think.

Marty:
That sort of lawless time

in the united states history...

- Yeah.
-...In--
you know, a lot of stuff

moved back and forth and a lot
of plundering and a lot of--

probably things
that nobody even knows about.

- Yeah.
-But, I'll bet there are
a lot of them out there.

Rick:
I agree. I-I think

there's stories out there
that need to be unearthed.

No pun intended.

And I-I think there are
a lot of treasure stories.

- And, I look forward
to looking into them.
-Matty: Yeah.

In a way, you know, this...
When we embarked

on this little
oak island a-adventure--

rick has remarked on this
and he's absolutely right--

the way these treasure hunts
are intertwined

with historical events
is really remarkable.

You know, I-it's almost as if

they're a driver somehow
of what's happening.

You know, this-this quest
for treasure, at the time,

drives history,
or is it the other way around?

I don't know, but they're
certainly intertwined.

-Yeah, it's a quest for truth.
-Yeah.

Once again, guys,
this was awesome.

I can't wait for the next one.
And I know you guys

have a lot of work to do,
so I'll let you get back to it.

Well, come on out and get dirty.

Let's do it.

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