When Stephen Tucker climbed to the top of the Hole in the Wall near Kaycee in Johnson County with Wyoming’s cowboy historian Clay Gibbons, it was to film a short tourism video for the county.
What Tucker saw as he stood on that legendary outlaw hideout rimmed in red rock not only took his breath away, it also blew his mind.
Here he was standing where some of America’s most infamous Wild West outlaws had no doubt also stood. Butch Cassidy, Flat Nose George Curry, and Black Jack Ketchum are just a few of the Wyoming outlaws who passed through this stunning and scenic hideout.
But he was also listening to cowboy historian Clay Gibbons spin the unbelievable, but true, Western stories of the Hole in the Wall in a way he’d never heard before.
It was a magical moment.
Gibbons made history co