Its finally starting to warm up again and snow has almost disappeared. One of my favorite stops for rock hounding so far has been Marysvale. Its located on highway 89 just south of I-70 near Circleville, where Butch Cassidy the Sundance Kid grew up. I have recently heard many stories about him and his life that are very interesting. He enjoyed being called the modern-day Robyn Hood because he would rob from the trains passing by and help others in his community. I had heard that he had a place in Chile where he would retreat to after he had blasted into a train vault. Him and a friend would ride horses all the way thousands of miles. There are many mysteries about where he actually ended up and where he was buried. One of my co-workers Moms was actually writing a documentary about Butch Cassidy and after interviewing many of his current family members, they led her to a place where they unearthed a skeleton and were going to do a DNA test to check and see if it was really him. Other people say he was tracked down by a Bolivian Army Calvary near a mine they believed he would rob and a gun fight broke out which lead to his and his crime partner Harry Longabaugh death. No matter what happened Marysville and the surrounding area have a lot of history attached to them. I really has a lot of beauty with so many different colored hills and the great rafting Sevier river flowing right through it.
When you go here there are so many sights you can find rock. One of my favorites is just north of town where you can find rutile and bixbyte encased encased in Rhyolite a white chalky rock left from volcanic activity. If you get a chance and want to go here you can use this link I found and it will bring you to the site if you look at the Marysville area. http://www.xmission.com/~jbdaniel/piute.htm.
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