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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.
Treasure Mountain Lost French Gold: Colorado's Buried Legend
Hundreds of Frenchmen, a mountain of gold and a map that vanished. Here's what's legend and what's record behind Colorado's Treasure Mountain and Treasure Falls.
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 Confederate Gold of Blue Mountain, Alabama: The Lost Wagon
A wagon of Confederate gold, the legend says, vanished into the hills around Blue Mountain, Alabama, in 1865. The depot, the camp and the raid were real. The gold? Not one record.
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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