Pete’s tavern became a hangout for unwholesome characters who held up stage coaches and robbed lone travellers. One of the road agents is alleged to have left a small fortune in gold cached in the vicinity.

In later years, time and neglect gave the building its present hapless look and it became known as Robbers’ Roost. It is in the cottonwood grove just across the railroad tracks. Drive over and pay your respects but please don’t dig up the premises trying to locate the cache.