Author name: Jason Smith

Oklahoma probably has more caches of gold and silver (coins and bars) made by Indians than any other state in the Union, plus numerous outlaw, cattleman, and modern-day gangster burial sites of valuables. There are also several lost gold and silver mines in Oklahoma. The following stories come from countless hours spent in libraries, historical […]

Like its neighbor Washington, Oregon has almost every kind of treasure, from lost mines to gemstone deposits to the bandit, Indian, pioneer, U.S. Army, and riverboat caches. The largest lost meteor ever to fall, worth over $2,000,000 today, is in Oregon. It could pay interested treasure hunters to visit the state. The location of $75,000

The Keystone State offers almost any type of treasure an interested person would want to search for. For historical sites, Pennsylvania ranks near the top. There are hundreds of ghost towns, abandoned lumber and coal camps, battle sites, Indian villages, early fort locations, and trading posts waiting for the treasure hunter in Pennsylvania. While this

While North Dakota does not have many lost or buried treasure sites, it is fertile soil for metal detectors. This state, previously a part of Louisiana, the Great Northwest, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, and, finally, Dakota Territory, made a lot of history. If you want an exciting new locale for metal detecting, consider

Although Rhode Island is the smallest in land area of the fifty states, it lays claim to a greater number of historic sites and other points of interest to treasure hunters than other states, which are twice its size. The Nazi submarine U-853 lies about 85 yards due east of the northern tip of Block

Gold brought the white man to where the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe had roamed for centuries in Wyoming. Gold pitted the white man against the Indian and joined these two people in mortal combat. In the vast solitudes still lie some of the gold that men buried to retrieve at an appropriate time, which never

While Vermont is not comparable to Texas or California in the number of treasure locations within its borders, there are enough treasure and metal detector sites to make it worthwhile to visit. Vermont is the only New England state without an Atlantic Ocean coastline, but there are many known shipwrecks in Lake Champlain, some of

While South Dakota is not the richest state in treasure and lost mine sites, neither is it the poorest. While several of the known treasures and lost mines of South Dakota are told here, there are doubtless many more that have yet to come to light. But for the searchers of artifacts and relics, the

The first white man known to visit Tennessee was the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto in 1540. No important exploration was done until 1673 when the British and French penetrated the area. Father Marquette and Joilet laid claim to all of the Mississippi Valley for France. Jams Needham and Gabriel Arthur laid the claims for

Texas ranks high on the list of states where what is known as treasure today can be found. These stories, or “leads,” some of which are well known, others that are not, have been taken from numerous sources. Many are based on a legend dating back to the Spanish conquest, while others are of a