Treasures of Idaho – Sunken Steamer Kootenai’s Ore
Beneath Lake Coeur d’Alene’s surface lies the Kootenai steamer, an 1883 ice-breaking vessel that shaped Idaho’s mining destiny.
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Treasures of Idaho – Buried Loot in Twin Falls County
Discover how Twin Falls County’s legendary stagecoach heists and forgotten strongboxes hide over $1.2 million in buried treasure.
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Treasures of Idaho – Butch Cassidy’s Bank Heist Loot
The legendary $700,000 loot from Butch Cassidy’s 1896 Montpelier bank heist still beckons treasure hunters to Idaho’s mysterious caves.
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Lost Treasures In Minnesota
The birth of the Minnesota Territory was in 1849, and it was a state by 1858. However, the interest in treasure hunters can go back much further than that, as there were explorers, fur traders, voyageurs, and missionaries in the area as far back as 1618. The French fur hunters were the first, and when
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Lost Treasures In Michigan
At the end of the French and Indian War, France ceded the Great Lakes and the Northwest Territories to England. Twenty years later, in September 1783, England granted the Northwest Territory to the United States under the Treaty of Paris. A part of that grant became the state of Michigan, which was admitted to the
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Lost Treasures In Massachusetts
For treasure hunters who think that, because it is one of the oldest settled areas in the United States, all the treasures in Massachusetts have been found, the following information will surprise those who visit the Pilgrim State. The coastline, including tidal waters, is nearly 2000 miles long, with a large portion of it made
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Lost Treasures In Mississippi
Treasure-hunting in Mississippi has been going on for more than 400 years. Spanish conquistadors sailed along its coast in search of riches. Vainly questing for gold in 1540, Hernando de Soto entered the State of Mississippi. He died on the banks of the Mississippi River and is buried in its waters. Frenchmen attracted by the
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Lost Treasures In Missouri
Even though there hasn’t been much mining for gold or silver in Missouri, some of its lost mines and treasure stories are linked to the Spanish mining for gold and silver. Other Missouri treasure stories have their backgrounds in robbing stagecoaches, trains, and banks by outlaws and treasure buried or hidden as a result of
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Lost Treasures In Iowa
Iowa is not as rich in treasure sites as several other states, but there are enough locations to keep a treasure hunter busy for the rest of his life. Fort Atkinson and Fort Defiance are two forts in Iowa that might interest the treasure hunter.Fort Atkinson was established in Winneshiek County to protect the Winnebago
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Lost Treasures In Kansas
Kansas was the great crossroads of the nation for fur traders and trappers, military expeditions, explorers, trade expeditions, the Great Emigration to the Oregon country starting in 1843, and then the rush to the gold fields, which brought a throng of 90,000 people across Kansas in the year 1849 alone. In any vast movement of
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