J&H wrote:
Good luck in finding that Gold Ironsight...occassionally we get the odd Western Movie that is to do with the ACW and in some I have seen Indians, and others not.
Yeah far as that gold stash, i've done a lot of research on that outlaw band who operated freely for years until they were eventually hunted down and all hung. There hideout was in a nearby shallow lake/remote swampy area. A long high hilly ridge of ground was there access to the hideout. Since my property includes part of that high ridge, there's always hope! :laugh:
Years ago i worked with a guy in San Diego who later became a friend. He was an avid treasure hunter with an uncanny 6th sense when it came to finding treasure. Whenever we'd go metal detecting he'd always instinctively go to the area where the stuff was buried. One day while metal detecting in a downtown San Diego vacant lot, i noticed he was frantically digging and pocketing in rapid succession. He got himself 43 turn of the century 'silver' Barber dimes that day. Got myself a handful of them old dimes also. Later we found out there used to be an old trolley station in that area. There are'nt too many greater thrills than liberating those bright silver coins from the ground.
Now this guy when he previously lived in Colorado with a couple friends researched an old outlaw band who robbed a stagecoach of a shipment of gold coins and were caught a day later. The gold was never recovered. By extensive research, triangulation, distance perimetering and sheer instinct they found the gold coins buried in a rusted out steel kettle near what he said were the remnants of an old camp fire.
At the time we were seriously researching an outlaw band that operated in the Southern California desert area whose specialty was also robbing stage coach lines. Lost interest though when we were booted off National Park property...dam near got arrested!
As for the indians, am in the middle of reading 'The Blue and the Gray' which states that Confederate General VanDorn's Army at the battle of Pea Ridge included 5,000 indians from the 'Five Civilized Nations'. Indians in the ranks were much more common in the Western than the Eastern battles.
VanDorn by the way outnumbered the Yankees by 2:1 and somehow succeeded in letting his Army get routed. One more in a string of disasters for the Confederacy in the West.
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