ALMA Places like Hole in the Wall, Robbers Roost, and Brown’s Park are commonly associated with hideouts for Butch Cassidy and The Wild Bunch. Another safe haven for them was the JS Ranch on the San Francisco River near Alma, NM. They were well liked in that area under assumed names, were hard working, and caused no trouble. Butch, his mentor Elza Lay, and Will Carver were all highly regarded ranch hands at the JS. Butch, of course, did not much care for the long hours and hard labor required of drovers and when the opportunity came up he bought and ran a saloon in Alma. Elza and Will continued on at the ranch. The ranch had additional range property in Northeast New Mexico not far from the community of Folsom. Elza
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