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Some of this is a legend and some leads to a real place
One man I met online said that he tracked the location down in Oklahoma where they dragged the safes to after robbing the trains there and blew them open. He found 8 of them he said, and all were full of coins and gold, which he thought would be buried in local areas somewhere using these maps. He said he found every one of the areas to be decorated with the markings on the map, but they were void of anything on their metal detectors. He said that they must have come through and cut the markings to match the map but that they had moved the stash to another location. He was impressed and we made friends talking about the other stories tied to this affair.
See James Gang had a bunch of "Watchers" looking over their stash areas. They didn't know where the big one was, but knew to be on the lookout for anyone coming to look for it nearby.
He left them small caches and these maps sometimes were passed down by family of their gang members to the locations of their personal shares and it was like an underground treasury where they could go anytime they wanted.
The gang was pretty well prepared to carry all of it west on their last rides, and it looked like from what my buddy said that they came back and dug up the massive stashes and went to the other location with them.
The thing is that these are also really well-known areas, so the second someone finds them they can pinpoint the areas with a single map. And there are literally no hiking trails there for about 2.5 miles or so from the road that you take off from so it has a pretty remote overlook that was used to create as many hideaways as possible
I bet that there is a lot more to be found in that area too....some of these canyons were blocked off with walls and you can see where there were gunfights around the holdouts
