The Thoen Stone: South Dakota's Lost Black Hills Gold Mystery
A stonemason's find, a seven-name roll call and a message dated 1834. Here's what the Thoen Stone says, who backs it, and why South Dakota still argues about it.
From 1849 on, when half the country went west to get rich and a few actually did.
A stonemason's find, a seven-name roll call and a message dated 1834. Here's what the Thoen Stone says, who backs it, and why South Dakota still argues about it.
A desperate wagon train, children with a bucket of heavy yellow pebbles and a creek nobody could find again. Here's what's known about Oregon's most famous lost gold.
In 1857 a steamer packed with California gold sank in a hurricane, and survivors watched fortunes slide off the deck. Then came the rumours, the treasure hunter and 500 coins nobody can find.