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MI 150513

Robbers Rock
In following the old stage road from Hilt, California, northward one would find that it winds around among some trees as it approaches the top of the mountain. At the last turn before the road starts to level off at the top of the mountain, there is upon the hillside a couple of hundred feet or so, a big, lone rock, about the size of a one-room cabin. As the road goes around the turn the rock comes in sight at once.
This is a perfect place for a hold-up. I guess that's why three bandits picked that rock to hide behind, I believe some time in the 1860s, and robbed the stage of a shipment of gold nuggets valued at seventy-five thousand dollars.
Officers later killed two of the bandits north of Pilot Rock and captured the third one. The one captured was sent to prison, where he died several years later.
From what I have gathered from the early settlers the holdup started the rock to be called "Robber's Rock," and in later years the rock was used to stage other holdups in the same way.
It seems that even in the old days crime didn't pay all the time

Location
MS178, no. 425
Source

George Wright descriptions

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