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The Lost Bowie Mine: Texas's Los Almagres Silver Legend
Spain chased it, Jim Bowie fought 13 hours for it, and nobody agrees where it is. Here's what's documented about Texas's Lost Bowie Mine and what's legend.
The Lost Blue Bucket Mine: Oregon's Legendary Gold of 1845
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.
The Swift Silver Mine: Kentucky's Lost Silver Legend
A blind Englishman, a journal full of silver and two centuries of Kentuckians searching the hills for it. The Swift Silver Mine: what the records show, and what's pure legend.
The Lost Packer Mine: Idaho's Lost Gold Ledge, Found at Last?
Rich gold float on an Idaho mule trail, a finder who never came back for it, and a 1902 strike that took his legend's name. Was the Lost Packer ever really found?
The Lost Adams Diggings: New Mexico's Vanishing Gold Canyon
A canyon of loose gold, a cache under a burned cabin's hearthstone, and a survivor who spent decades failing to find his way back. New Mexico's Lost Adams Diggings, fact and legend.
The Lost Silver Mine of the Menominee: Legend and Real History
French traders, a secret silver vein and a people who knew the woods better than anyone. Wisconsin's lost Menominee mine has no paper trail, but the real silver story on the Menominee River is still unfolding.
The Red Mountain Mine Gold Cache: Birmingham's Sealed-Shaft Legend
Smuggled gold sealed inside an old mine under Birmingham's iron mountain? Red Mountain's tunnels and concrete-capped portals are real. The gold is another matter.
The Lost Dutchman Mine: Legend, Clues and Deadly Searches
An old German prospector, a box of gold under his deathbed and 130 years of searchers trying to find the rest. The Lost Dutchman Mine, fact by fact and legend by legend.
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