Two soldiers, recently discharged from Ft McDowell, traveled through the Superstition Mountains on the Old Military Trail, when they flushed out, and shot at, a deer. Not finding the deer, the two happened onto a dark red outcropping of rich gold ore. Later, the two were found dead near Black Top Mesa in the Superstitions.
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Buried Treasures You Can Find
The Lost Dutchman Mine of Jacob Waltz Part 1
The Lost Dutchman Mine is supposedly located within a circle, who's center is Weaver's Needle, and the diameter of which is no more than 5 miles. Weaver's Needle is located deep within the heart of the Superstition Mountains.
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Guide to Treasure in Arizona
Buried Treasures You Can Find
The Lost Dutchman Mine of Jacob Waltz Part 1
The Lost Dutchman Mine of Jacob Waltz Part 2
Treasure Secrets of the Lost Dutchman
Dig Here!
Lost Dutchman Mine Discoveries
Lost Mines & buried Treasures along the Old Frontier
Lost Mines of the Great Southwest
Lost Mines & Buried Treasure: A Guide to Sites & Legends of the Southwest
Quest for the Dutchman's Gold
The Sterling Legend
Treasure Secrets of the Lost Dutchman
Dr. Thorne was a man that befriended the Apache Indians, and for his services to him, the Indians took him to a place where gold nuggets littered the canyon floor. But, he was blindfolded on the ride in and out and could never relocate the canyon.
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Buried Treasures You Can Find
The Lost Dutchman Mine of Jacob Waltz Part 1
A prospector named Wagoner found a ledge of gold, supposedly in La Barge Canyon, in the Superstition Mountains. When he died, it was never relocated.
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Guide to Treasure in Arizona
Buried Treasures You Can Find
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In 1937, a man named Jenkins, his wife, and two daughters picnicked in the Superstitions, and found a pretty quartz rock that was very heavy. Later, he was told it was heavily laden with gold. Before he could go back into the mountains again, he died from a heart attack. His wife could not remember where they were.
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Yuma's Lost Mine is said to be located a few miles southwest of Winkelman.
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An enormous amount of gold and silver, gathered by the Papago Indians and given to white men that had lived with them, is said to be located between Red Rock Butte and the Silver Bell Mountains.
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Guide to Treasure in Arizona
An iron pot or chest is said to have been buried in the center of a wagon train, burned out by Apache raiders, near Montezuma Head.
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Guide to Treasure in Arizona
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The Treasures of the San Marcelo Mission is said to have been hidden in a cave in the Tortilla Mountains by Spanish Missionaries during the Papago Indian revolt of 1751.
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Don Joaquin Campoy's lost mine is supposedly located near Montezuma's Head.
