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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 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.
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.
French Payroll Gold near Minerva, Ohio: Legend, Clues and Searches
Ten French soldiers, a string of packhorses and a payroll buried in a hurry. Here's what Ohio's Minerva legend says, what history backs up, and why the gold has never turned up.
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: North Carolina's Vanished Settlers
117 English settlers, one word carved on a post and a mystery that has outlasted four centuries. Here's what's documented about Roanoke's Lost Colony, and what isn't.
Dutch Schultz's Lost Catskills Treasure: New York's Gangster Legend
A gangster, a rambling deathbed and a safe said to be buried near Phoenicia. Here's what is documented about Dutch Schultz and what the legend adds.
Big Springs Train Robbery Gold: Sam Bass and Nebraska's 1877 Heist
Six masked men, three wooden boxes and $60,000 in fresh gold coins. Here's what's known about Sam Bass's Big Springs robbery and the treasure that never came home.
Natchez Trace Outlaw Treasure: Mason's Gang and Lost Loot
A river pirate turned highwayman, an empty camp at Rocky Springs and buried gold nobody can prove. Here's what's documented about Mason's Mississippi loot, and what's pure campfire.
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.
King Kamehameha's Lost Treasury and Hidden Resting Place
A sandalwood king, storehouses of Spanish silver and a fortune that seemed to vanish. Plus the real Hawaii mystery: where Kamehameha the Great lies, a secret kept on purpose for 200 years.
Captain Kidd's Delaware Bay Treasure: Lewes and the Lost Chest
In 1699 Captain Kidd anchored off Lewes for ten days, locals rowed out to trade, and a pirate's chest went ashore. Legend says Kidd buried gold on a Delaware Bay island. Here's what really happened.
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 Confederate Gold of Gainesville, Alabama
A wagon of Confederate gold, a cavalry corps laying down its arms and a cotton town on the Tombigbee. The Gainesville legend, and the real last days of the war around it.
The Fox River Raiders' Lost Gold: An Illinois Treasure Legend
Legend says river pirates buried stolen gold along Illinois' Fox River, then got wiped out. The records tell a stranger story: prairie pirates, a man named Fox and a buried bottle of loot.
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 Gold of the Mormon Handcart Trail in Iowa
Legend says travelers on Iowa's Mormon Handcart Trail buried gold coins and never came back. The real 1856 trek tells a very different story about who had gold at all.
The Lost Treasure of the Reno Gang: Indiana's Missing Loot
America's first train robbers grabbed about $96,000 at Marshfield in 1868, then vigilantes got to them. The money never turned up. Buried near Seymour, carried to Canada, or quietly laundered?
The Russian Miners' Lost Gold: Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Legend
Russian prospectors panned real gold on Alaska's Kenai River around 1850, then went quiet. Did they leave a hidden stash behind when Russia sold Alaska? The records, the rumours and the rush.
The Lost Confederate Gold of Lake Lanier: Lore and Facts
Local lore swears Confederate gold went under with the valleys that became Georgia's Lake Lanier. Here's what really sank in 1956, where the real rebel gold went, and why the lake keeps its secrets.
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 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 Spanish Treasure of Dauphin Island: Alabama's Lost Silver
Spanish silver and church relics buried in the dunes, then storms and pirates wiped out the camp. Dauphin Island's treasure legend, checked against its very real raids and hurricanes.
Jean Lafitte's Barataria Treasure: Pirate Gold in the Bayous
Warships closing in, a fortune in the warehouses and a swamp at his back. Did the pirate Jean Lafitte bury his loot in the Louisiana bayous, or is the Barataria treasure pure legend?
Jean Lafitte's Secret Stash: The Fort Morgan Treasure Legend
Pirate Jean Lafitte supposedly buried a fortune near Fort Morgan, Alabama. The catch: no record puts him digging there, and nobody is quite sure how, or when, he died.
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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