Scottie Creek Stagecoach Loot
Region — where it (roughly) is
Land & claims · BLM · live
The story
In 1890, on the wagon roads of the British Columbia interior, a stagecoach was robbed — and the gold it carried, the story goes, was never seen again. Roughly $15,000 in nuggets and bars, hauled off into the bush and buried somewhere along Scottie Creek, just northeast of the aptly named Cache Creek. There it is said to wait still, an outlaw's hoard tucked into the folds of the land.
The setting gives the legend its bones. This was a region where stagecoach robbery was no tall tale but a documented hazard of the era, when treasure boxes of gold rode the wagon roads and men with masks and rifles waited along them. Against that real backdrop of holdups and stolen strongboxes, a story of buried loot finds easy purchase. The creek, the gold, the robbery — they fit the country's history like a key into a lock.
And yet the specific cache remains exactly that: a story. The figure of $15,000, the burial along Scottie Creek, the nuggets and bars — these are the contours of a regional outlaw legend, rooted in a genuine era of crime but never confirmed by any recovered hoard. The robbery's loot, if it was buried at all, has stayed hidden, and the precise spot is unknown.
What survives is the legend itself, handed down in the Ashcroft and Cache Creek country as part of the lore of the old wagon roads — a reminder of a time when gold moved by stagecoach and not all of it reached its destination.
Fact vs. legend: Stagecoach robberies along BC's wagon roads in this era are well documented, but the buried ~$15,000 cache along Scottie Creek from an 1890 robbery is an unconfirmed regional outlaw legend, never recovered and unverified in its specifics.
Search area: The point marks along Scottie Creek, northeast of Cache Creek, British Columbia — the search area or landmark, not the treasure, whose exact location is unknown.