lost mines and buried treasures of the west
Two brothers reported finding some of Sharps loot near modern day Bodie Hills, California, but they estimated that the vast majority of it remained buried throughout the area and beyond. And Hope would roll her eyes and say that he was off chasing another one of his obsessive dreams. Hell cut a diagonal path, building an embankment on the downhill side as he goes. He and Hope had just been evicted from the mobile home community they lived in, where Somers had done maintenance work in exchange for rent. During these forays he takes grainy photographs with the snake cam and collects a couple of artifacts: a .38 Special bullet, which could date back to the 1920s, and a bone fragment. True, Somers had done things backwardshed dug a hole first, then investigatedbut none of it seemed to matter. Jones, who was thought to be drunk during the robbery, was promptly killed when a guard returned fire and shot him. Like, everything was about the hole., Bowser was worried that Somers was setting himself up for another huge disappointment. David Howard has written for many national publications and is the author of two nonfiction books, most recently Chasing Phil: The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World's Most Charming Con Man. Native American legends in the area of Nehalem Bay on the Oregon Coast have spoken of a long-lost treasure buried somewhere there in the shadow of Neahkahnie Mountain, marked with an inscribed stone. This Picture of an Atom Is a Scientific Marvel. They insisted the James brothers had never been in Ohio. Book Description This large, easy-to-use volume lists the Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. That was right across the road from Bowsers property. Milton Sharp was one of the many thieves who made a living by holding up miners at gunpoint in the decades after the California Gold Rush. And there were those who found fortune, in one way or another, only to lose it. The Spanish Pirate Gold of Neahkahnie Mountain. Neahkahnie Mountain / via Wikipedia. Uploaded by Sound interesting enough for you?, He continued: If you want the story exclusive we can talk Im about to show the world the end of a 200-year-old treasure hunt.. He says there are people who use money to build towering shrines to their own selfishness, and there are others who never had nothing and they end up with something, and usually by the end of it they have nothing again because they helped everybody thats ever helped them, or that they cared about. Hell stay here all night. After a month, he maxed out the 25-foot extension ladder. She recalls being told that her husbands great-great-grandmother provided Jesse James with meals and laundry services when he passed through the area. The GPR detects a cache of possible metal that measures 14 feet in length and four feet in width. A duck-billed dinosaur adorned his townhouse window; he displayed a T-rex jaw in his living room and an ichthyosaurus on his mantel. Map to Belle Isle for Treasure image Google Maps link. That evening, I ask Getler if he feels a growing sense of anticipation, and he cuts me off midquestion. Some stories have a mythical bent, making their authenticity appear unlikely. It appeared to be the top of a vault, but he couldnt penetrate itevery drill bit he tried became stuck. He wasnt yet thinking about why that might be the case, or how it all might fit together: the old yard-sale picture, the strange carvings on nearby beech trees, the weird gold-mine legend. Until then, Somers will suppress his urge to claw deeper into the earth. Thats our hit., Still other trees show rabbits, turkey tracks, hearts, and more. During that first visit, Getler along with Brad and Bradley Richards took readingsthough on less-sophisticated equipment than the TM 808that confirmed the presence of something underground at the dig spot. Today, he is planning to oversee a ground scan using geophysics equipment, to try to zero in further on the potential treasure. After roaming around for a while, hed taken a break to smoke a cigarette on a slender ledge hard up against a huge old birch tree, situated two-thirds of the way down the steep, several-hundred-foot bluff. If you read about this stuff, youll hear that these treasures are protected by spirits., Then theres the origin story of Somerss daydream, which led him to believe that this is his lifes mission. There were other strange and unexplained occurrences. Between the early 1840s and the end of the 1860s, more than 400,000 settlers traversed the 2,170-mile Oregon, Come to think of it, Utah would be a great place to hide something. Relaxing there, Somers had drifted into a kind of trancea daydream, is the way he explains it. In May, Getler recruits a television production company to shoot footage on site, with the goal of pitching a show. Do you know how weird it is? A purported Civil War battle site map that the team believes points to the treasure on Bowsers property. The mines involved usually contain a high-value commodity such as gold, silver or diamonds. WebLost Mines and Buried Treasures of Oklahoma (Lost Mines and Buried Treasures series) ISBN 9781930584457 1930584458 by Jameson, W.C. - buy, sell or rent this book for the best price. I wanna just write my name in that book, he says. Its getting to the point where its as curious and intriguing and as amazing as finding something on the Giza Plateau in Egypthome of the Great Pyramidsas far as American history goes, he says. Im thinking, Im too deep, he says. The doctor later enlisted the help of a few friends and hired hands and set off on an expedition to recover the remaining gold in 1861. $7.48 + $11.31 shipping. Hes like, I dug a hole 30 feet in the ground, and Im standing on a vault of Jesse Jamess gold, she says. But in every other meaningful way, hell remain down in that hole until the last shovelful of dirt has been turned over. He sounds like someone doing his best to cling to the projects curves as it careens into ever more uncertain territory. But even if the family matter is resolved quickly, definitive answers about the site will have to wait. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. Amazon review. Online, he located a hand-drawn map of unknown provenance that claims to identify the location of a large underground Confederate depository in Tennessee on an 186263 Battle Site. But Somers observed that the lettering of the world Battle was written in a way that it could be read as 13 oHiothe 13 perhaps referring to nearby Ohio Route 13 or a KGC symbol. In 1880, Jones stopped a Wells Fargo stagecoach by shooting one of its stage horses. I dont feel like I found this thing, he says. Click here for our comprehensive article on the American West. N95 Vs. KN95 Masks: Whats the Difference? by W.C. Jameson, High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyo., 2010, $15. Compare prices on BookScouter. It is believed that he buried his loot somewhere around the western slopes of the Warner Mountains. Site created in November 2000. Theres definitely something right there, he says. The spread covered more than 300 acres in east-central Ohio, encompassing a farm with hayfields and a home, barn, and bunkhouse. In the old American West, tensions between European settlers and the Indians ran dangerously high. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What Is Sargassum Seaweed and Why Is It a Problem? This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Wrapping your head around the totality of their case is an isometric mental exercise that creates a sinewy strain between faith and fact. Weve all seen Indiana Joneswho dont want a whip and a cool-ass hat, right? he says. Getler eventually took a job there. Theres a deeper chamber, he says. There was something familiar about the portraits. He could hear the creek gurgling below. Ill break down, man. More than 500 mining camps sprang up seemingly overnight in California as a crush of 80,000 ambitious prospectors flooded into the state in 1849 during the Gold Rush. Ill tell you what, Chads not leaving, he says. They like old stuff, and as they poked through the remnants of an attic, Bowser studied an old photograph of two mustachioed men priced at $15. And he took a gamble by inviting a group of journalists along, but he and Brad and Bradley Richards and the work crew have lives, jobs, school to turn back to. And there were those who found Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the West: Bibliography After Chad Somers saw the vision, he started digging with his bare hands. Eventually, Hans Stockli hikes down the slope to provide an answer. Sharp was known to apologize to his victims, saying A thousand pardons for the inconvenience I have caused you, but you see these are the hazards of my profession. Getler leads us to a series of beech trees Somers had identified while roaming the land. On his first visit several months earlier, Getler saw a faint inscription near the bottom of one tree that, to his eye, reads Jessie W. James and the year 1882. After consulting with a maritime lawyer, Pennisi learned that local laws explicitly banned underwater salvage and recovery operations in the sanctuary, including the use of human divers and robotic submersibles.. W.C. Jameson must be an eccentric millionaire by now. WebLost Mines of the Great Southwest by John D. Mitchell (1970 hardcover) Sponsored $100.00 + $4.35 shipping 1953 LOST MINES OF CALIFORNIA & THE SOUTHWEST, Buried Treasures w/Large Map, 1st $5.00 + $3.65 shipping Lost Bonanzas by Harry Sinclair Drago Buried Treasure and Lost Mines in the West $7.48 + $11.31 shipping Treasure hunters typically purchase expensive underwater rovers rather than putting divers at risk for missions like these. He rarely saw his biological father, and spent large swaths of time with his grandparents, to avoid his violent stepfather. He hunkered at the edge of the shaft, working to manipulate the device inside; Bowser perched at the base of the tree, hunched over a monitor, watching the feed and calling down instructions. After a few weeks he would come back to the villages with a fresh supply of gold. Somers in particular was drawn to it. At one point, in the course of explaining why he isnt using an underground detection tool called a gravimeter, he offers backstory about another dig. That, in turn, is connected to an Arc-Geo Logger, a device that converts the metal detectors sounds into a heat map that depicts the rough size and shape of a target. His success and fame as a professional treasure hunter has led to appearances on televisions [Chad] thinks differently than most people, she says. Within a day or so the hole was more than six feet deep, so he brought in an extension ladder and a generator to run a light down there. When he finally returned to the dig site, he found his hole partially collapsed. 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