Let me show you why the law could never catch these guys.
Out on the rolling Wyoming plains there's a long wall of red rock — and one notch cut clean through it. Ride through that notch and you drop into a hidden green valley. Water. Grass. Room to winter a whole string of horses. And here's the trick: there's basically one way in. That's Hole-in-the-Wall, tucked in the Big Horn foothills of Johnson County, about 25 miles southwest of Kaycee.
For about forty years — from the late 1860s clear up to around 1910 — it was the safest place in the West to be wanted. Cattle rustlers, the Logan brothers, Black Jack Ketchum, Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch — they all holed up here. There were cabins, a corral, a livery, supplies. Each gang chipped in to keep it stocked. And from up on the rim? A lookout could spot a posse coming for miles and be long gone before it ever got close.
That's the whole beauty of it. Nobody built a fort here. The land already was one — the outlaws just knew how to read it. Today the place runs all through the region's history, and the little Hoofprints of the Past Museum in Kaycee still takes folks out to the wall every summer.