Hidden & Lost Treasures

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

Connecticut has a wealth of interest for the treasure hunter. Its many villages of old houses and churches, rivers, lakes and modern city parks all present a varied number of treasure and metal detector sites for the interested person. Nearly every known mineral has been found in Connecticut, and the exploitation of its mineral wealth

Illinois received its name from the Kaskaskia Indian word, Illini, meaning “real man.”The first European to explore the area was Joliet, in 1673. Soon afterward, French traders and missionaries came in search of gold, silver, furs, and converts. Father Marquette founded the earliest mission at the Indian village of Kaskaskia in 1675. Between 1682 and

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