Golden Legends Tales of Buried Treasure

  Bill Walters was born in Oklahoma Territory's Fort Sill. He spent the majority of his adolescence working as a cowboy before starting as a section hand for the Santa Fe Railroad.  Walters got involved in train robberies and stagecoach robberies soon after starting his job with the railroad. Around 1893, he joined the Black Jack Ketchum Gang and is thought to have participated in at least two murders there. He quickly persuaded a few of the gang members to depart with him and start their own group that would focus on robbing Wells Fargo shipments. He would achieve his greatest success in this quest. Walters committed multiple murders while robbing unspecified sums of money from shipments between 1894 and 1897. It's highly unlikely that he actually stole the quantities claimed in folklore. But according to tradition, Walters started stashing his booty close to the hideout he and his group were using in Solomonville. Lawmen Jeff Milton and George Scarborough tracked down, shot,...

  Sir Thomas Cavendish (1560[1] –  May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as  "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake  and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe. His richest prize was the captured 600-ton sailing ship the Manila Galleon Santa Ana  (also called Santa Anna). No doubt his exploits gained broad attention, especially since  Queen Elizabeth knighted him. It is probable that Cavendish sailed near Hawaii on his first journey to circumnavigate the globe. While in the Philippines (1587), Cavendish heard of ships that were to arrive with treasure from  Mexico and South America.  The Manila galleons were restricted by the Spanish Monarch to one or two ships/year and typically carried all  the goods accumulated in the Philippines in a year's worth of trading silver, from the Mints  in Peru and Mexico, with the Chin...

  Why did the robber burglarize the canoe store? He heard that gold is found in ores.

Still focusing on the middle of the United States, a famous robbery in east Idaho  continues as legend. Reportedly, in 1865, the Overland Stage Line was robbed by the Picket  Coral Gang. With a bad reputation as a robbery syndicate, the gang could have secreted the goods in Portneuf  Canyon. The gang was known as the Picket Coral Gang. Much of what is known has been reported by the East Idaho News. Is it a legend, a fact-based story, or perhaps a new manifestation of "gold fever" manifestation? You decide.  For a rather detailed account of this legend, unsubstantiated report, or pointed tale, please see, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/portneuf-canyon-robbery/ Library of Congress - 1917

  From 1716 to 1718, the privateer Blackbeard navigated the West Indies and Atlantic Shoreline of North America, going after ships loaded down with gold, silver,  and different fortunes from Mexico and South America coming back to Spain. Blackbeard is said to have wildly flaunted on about his lost gold, however he never confided in anybody enough information to uncover the mysterious area.  In 1718, he was at long last taken and executed. Treasure trackers have been looking for Blackbeard's secret fortunes from that point forward, spying and searching the the coast in any direction from Virginia's Chesapeake Straight to the Caribbean and Cayman Islands. Not at all like Blackbeard's plunder, these extraordinary, submerged treasures have  really been found. The most meaningful find in the hunt for Blackbeard's treasure was the discovery of the ship, the Queen  Anne's Revenge, in 1996. Just twenty-five feet down near Beaufort Inlet, the wreck has been studied by ma...

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The Old Ozark Fortune Cavern is still lost, undisturbed for years. One of the Ozarks' greatest secrets,  The Old Spanish Fortune Cavern in the northwest corner of Arkansas is thought to hold stowed-away fortunes.  Covered by Spanish conquerors escaping  from local  Americans quite a long time back, the cache stays hidden.  The actual fortune has  not yet been found, yet relics from the time span have been found close nearby.  Head protectors, weapons, and shields have all been found. So, there's actually some trust in the tale.! These finds are  the  unusual archeological disclosures to date. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau,  is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant portion of northern  Arkansas and most of the southern half of Missouri. There is no naturally occurring gold...

September 7, 2023   A Norwegian out strolling on specialists'  guidance uncovered gems utilizing a recently purchased metal detector.   This cache is described as the gold find of the 100 years. At the first beeping of his new metal detector,  he thought they were chocolate coins. What a  lucky beginner! He called archeologists, who assumed control over the hunt. The gems (pearls and gold), which weigh in at somewhat more than 100 grams, were found to date from around 500 AD.  These declarations come from University of Stavanger's, College of Historical center of Paleontology. A remaking of the neckband Bore found, includes ponies from Norse folklore. "Given the area of this reveal and knowledge of other comparative finds,  this is likely a secret burial or a proposing to the divine beings."  - academic Hakon Reiersen said. Norwegian law provides that both Bore and the landowner get a reward.   Total is still up in the air. Courtesy...

  During the American Civil War, groups of so-called “partisan rangers”  engaged in bloody campaigns of guerilla attacks, raiding and psychological warfare  against rival military units and civilians. These units had tenuous ties to the regular Confederate and Union Armies and were led by men who often operated  outside the recognized rules of warfare.       In 1863, Confederate ranger John Singleton Mosby and his  band of guerrilla raiders snuck ten miles into Union territory   and were able to capture 40 Union troops at the Fairfax,  Virginia Courthouse. All this without firing a shot. Mosby and his crew stuffed duffle bags full of gold, jewelry, candlesticks,  silver and other family valuables. The stuff was from wealthy plantation owners in the south. Allegiance was not an issue. Learning of a nearby Union outfit, Mosby decided to entomb these bags  between a couple trees. Staking a knife at the foot of the loot, ...

Ted Binion was a wealthy heir to a casino and has been dead for 20 years. Mr. Binion definitely had a silver stash. After his death, it was discovered by Nye County sheriff's deputies. It was discovered that Binion had had a 12-foot-deep vault built on the desert floor on a piece of property he owned in  Pahrump, 60 miles west of Las Vegas. The concrete bunker contained six tons of silver  bullion, Horseshoe Casino chips, paper currency, and more than 100,000 rare coins,  including Carson City silver dollars, many in mint condition. At 55, it is said that Binion was murdered by a girlfriend. At the time (1998) his silver hoard was worth  several millions. In 2023, you can figure out that it is worth a walloping more. Binion hid millions in and around his Las Vegas home, all of which went missing after his death. The riches are rumored to be buried on the property under odd mounds in the front and back yards.  At the conclusion of the trial, much of Binion's silv...