Holdup Cut Five Mile Creek Stage Robbery Caches — Yellowstone County

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Holdup Cut Five Mile Creek Stage Robbery Caches — Yellowstone County

Lost Treasure MT • Yellowstone County County
Description
Holdup Cut legend on the old Lavina trail — a cliff-and-creek notch north of Billings where stage bandits cornered coaches and multiple holdups supposedly left unrecovered treasury boxes.
Historical Notes
A 1936 Fallon County Times article reproduced in TreasureNet's "Could There Be More" thread describes Holdup Cut on the Lavina trail near the head of Five Mile Creek — a cliff on one side and creek on the other with no room for coaches to turn. The Billings–Fort Benton stage line operated express stations at Lavina, Halbert, Ubet, and Lewistown after Wells Fargo took the contract in 1885; tradition names Holdup Cut for repeated robberies. Coordinates approximate Five Mile Creek at the Holdup Cut notch north of Billings. BLM and private ranch land — legend only.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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