SergntMac
10-25-2003, 06:24 PM
By Anthony Belli---EldoradoHangman@yahoo.com
Here's a few leads for you good ol' boys and girls from the great
state of Texas!
How bout' 63 million buried in the vicinity of Double Mountain, Stonewall County. Local research will be extremely valuable
here as one man spent 28 years looking for the elusive looted Inca treasure. Today his grave is said to mark where he believed the treasure to be hidden.
Further, the history of Double Mountain is steeped with legends of highwaymen who cached and hid out in this area. I'd begin my
research with the local historical society or museum. It should be
well-known locally---searchers were still digging in this area into the 1970s.
Lamar County---It has been a spell since you couldn't get a drink in Paris, Texas, but in 1882 the town's Woman's Christian Temper Union saw to it that no one did. In short order cowboys, laborers and others drew the last of their pay and moved on. This migration was along the Great Spanish Road to the Red River, where, in 1832, a wagon train was ambushed by Indians. They had enough time to bury an undisclosed sum of gold.
Some of the recently unemployed decided to camp in the area to see if they might be capable of locating the cache. Soon over 50 men were digging up the vicinity and one even turned up an old map drawn by one of the three survivors. A month later nothing but a few worthless relics had been found, and the men moved on.
For nearly a century the lost cache was forgotten, but in the late
1970s renewed interest drew the attention of treasure hunters to this area. Unfortunately, locals recall that several failed in their research and unknowingly found themselves looking on the wrong road.
Do not confuse the Great Spanish Trail for the Old Spanish Road in the Santa Fe area. The results from this effort are said to have been fruitless. The cache is believed to still be in the area.
This road has much history: some from Native American oral histories and much of its history has to do with pack wagons, highway robbery, and cached booty. Local research of the historical societies and county records may bring one closer to several caches believed to be planted in the vicinity.
A Bizarre Tale of Murder and Treasure: In 1915 a criminal investigation was launched into the murder of a wealthy cattleman and his young son on an isolated farm in Lyon County, Iowa. The event stunned the town of Bedford as its citizens watched many of the elderly pillars of the community arrested and charged for a murder that was 47 years old. Evidence of a cache of $90,000 appeared to be the motive, but much of the cache has never been recovered.
In the end, all charged in the case were freed as the court ruled that the relentless search for 25 years, rumors of robbery and murder, and the discovery of $42,000 seven years earlier---after the death of a local, once popular, doctor-turned-recluse (although identified by an eye-witness as one of the killers ) did not constitute holding the surviving suspects on a charge of murder.
Three caches were left on the old farm...one was dug up.
Happy hunting y'all
Here's a few leads for you good ol' boys and girls from the great
state of Texas!
How bout' 63 million buried in the vicinity of Double Mountain, Stonewall County. Local research will be extremely valuable
here as one man spent 28 years looking for the elusive looted Inca treasure. Today his grave is said to mark where he believed the treasure to be hidden.
Further, the history of Double Mountain is steeped with legends of highwaymen who cached and hid out in this area. I'd begin my
research with the local historical society or museum. It should be
well-known locally---searchers were still digging in this area into the 1970s.
Lamar County---It has been a spell since you couldn't get a drink in Paris, Texas, but in 1882 the town's Woman's Christian Temper Union saw to it that no one did. In short order cowboys, laborers and others drew the last of their pay and moved on. This migration was along the Great Spanish Road to the Red River, where, in 1832, a wagon train was ambushed by Indians. They had enough time to bury an undisclosed sum of gold.
Some of the recently unemployed decided to camp in the area to see if they might be capable of locating the cache. Soon over 50 men were digging up the vicinity and one even turned up an old map drawn by one of the three survivors. A month later nothing but a few worthless relics had been found, and the men moved on.
For nearly a century the lost cache was forgotten, but in the late
1970s renewed interest drew the attention of treasure hunters to this area. Unfortunately, locals recall that several failed in their research and unknowingly found themselves looking on the wrong road.
Do not confuse the Great Spanish Trail for the Old Spanish Road in the Santa Fe area. The results from this effort are said to have been fruitless. The cache is believed to still be in the area.
This road has much history: some from Native American oral histories and much of its history has to do with pack wagons, highway robbery, and cached booty. Local research of the historical societies and county records may bring one closer to several caches believed to be planted in the vicinity.
A Bizarre Tale of Murder and Treasure: In 1915 a criminal investigation was launched into the murder of a wealthy cattleman and his young son on an isolated farm in Lyon County, Iowa. The event stunned the town of Bedford as its citizens watched many of the elderly pillars of the community arrested and charged for a murder that was 47 years old. Evidence of a cache of $90,000 appeared to be the motive, but much of the cache has never been recovered.
In the end, all charged in the case were freed as the court ruled that the relentless search for 25 years, rumors of robbery and murder, and the discovery of $42,000 seven years earlier---after the death of a local, once popular, doctor-turned-recluse (although identified by an eye-witness as one of the killers ) did not constitute holding the surviving suspects on a charge of murder.
Three caches were left on the old farm...one was dug up.
Happy hunting y'all