Author name: Jason Smith

If any particular type of treasure and lost mine story predominates in Arkansas, it is the stories and legends concerning mines once worked by Spaniards and the treasure buried by them. When the Spaniards retired from the territory, the Indians naturally appropriated their property, and stories abound about the mines they destroyed or concealed. There […]

It has been estimated, by knowledgeable people, that there is enough information in Arizona concerning what we call treasure and ghost towns to fill half-a-dozen books. Arizona also had more than its share of blood and thunder days-the stuff from which treasure legends are born. Hostile Indians raided its ranches and mining camps, carrying away

Alaska, our largest state, has numerous sites of lost gold mines, caches, shipwrecks, and abandoned mining camps. The treasure hunter will have no problem finding interesting and profitable locations. In 1903, the International Boundary Survey was in the process of establishing the exact boundaries of Alaska and Canada. Gold had been discovered in the Yukon.

Although Alabama has a very small coastline compared to other Southern states and therefore has a limited number of underwater treasure sites, the state is loaded with Civil War locations where caches and relics can be found. There must have been thousands of caches of money, jewels, and other valuables buried or hidden in the

Hawaii became a state on August 22, 1959, and was dubbed “The Aloha State.” Aloha, in the Hawaiian language, means many things; it is a word of greeting, meaning both hello and goodbye. But it also means welcome, love, affection, warmth, tolerance, and understanding. The variety of treasure sites in Hawaii will probably come as

The general location of much of the millions of dollars in hidden, buried, and lost treasure in Idaho is known, but the exact spot of numerous caches is yet to be found. Legends, stories, and documented history tell of gold dust, coins, bars, and raw ores, that have been hidden or lost in Idaho during

No state in the Great Plains Belt is richer in treasure and artifact sites than Nebraska. The great movement of westward migration touched Nebraska more than any other state because it more or less followed the natural path of its great central watercourse, the Platte River. It has been said that the entire length of

The gold and the precious and semi-precious stones in the hills of Montana have given the state the epithet “The Treasure State.” Montana has produced more sapphires than any other state in the nation. It has extensive commercial deposits of green, yellow, red, and aquamarine sapphires. The cornflower blue sapphires of Yogo Gulch are gems

Nevada arose from mineral discovery. The first settlers in the state were the Mormons, who came in 1849. In the same year, gold was discovered near Virginia City. In 1859, placer mining in that gulch uncovered the famous Comstock Lode, the richest deposit of precious metals ever found on earth. Overnight, Virginia City became the

It is impossible to say precisely who the first white men to see New Hampshire was. They may have been Norsemen, Irish, or fishermen from some other Western European country. It is certain, however, that the English sea captain Martin Pring visited the coastal areas of New Hampshire in June 1603. He went to the