Moffat County's holiday past also boasts an event hosted by less reputable figures. One Thanksgiving during the 1890s, the ranching community of Brown's Park celebrated the season with a gang of robbers who took refuge in the wild countryside surrounding them, a 1977 article in The Denver Post reported.
During the late nineteenth century, Brown's Park was a haven for two robber bands. Butch Cassidy led the Wild Bunch, while Harry Radenbaugh - better known as "The Sundance Kid" - came to the area with the Powder Springs Gang.
Residents took a permissive view toward their neighbors' lawless activites, which included robbery and smuggling. The ranchers left the gangs to their business so long as the robbers didn't target them.
"Even when a man had a price on his head, no one in the park would dare face his neighbors' scorn - or perhaps the risk of retaliation - by giving information," the Post reported. - More
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