Concho River Outlaw Payroll — San Angelo

The three Concho rivers converge at San Angelo, creating fertile bottomland that attracted Fort Concho, cattlemen, and buffalo hunters in the 1860s–1870s. West Texas treasure tradition often places unrecovered strongboxes along river crossings. Goodnight and Loving, Charles Goodnight, and Texas Ranger expeditions passed through the Concho country. Regional compilations describe outlaw caches hidden in limestone breaks and river timber when lawmen pressed gangs after the Civil War. Coordinates mark the Concho rivers confluence at San Angelo. Much of the river corridor is urban, parkland, or private ranch land.