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.
Lost silver mines, silver bars and coins, and the legends that grew around them.
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.
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.
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.