Re: Monterrey/Skeleton Canyon treasure
February 11, 1998 at 23:08:06In Reply to: Monterrey/Skeleton Canyon treasure
posted by Brian Macdonald on February 11, 1998 at 19:30:02It looks like you might find some proof in old newpaper. Things to look for in the papers, San Simon valley old Mexican silver coins was found here and there over the years. It has been said the Cowboys at the San Simon ranch played poker all the next winter with the money they found in the Skeleton Canon neighbourhood. I also have that Mr.Joseph Wheeler, found 6 coins. You would find many of the names that are in the storys in the papers. Zwing Hunt would be a key to the story he may have died at his old home in San Antonio TX. Virgil Boucher an elder brother of Billy Grounds, whose real name was Billy Boucher, fell under the spell and in 1884 bringing with him what purported to be Zwing Hunt's original map and written directions. For more than thirty years, intermittently, he followed the trail of the treasure, making eighteen expeditions, he died in Duncan, NM around 1925. My father and I found Jim Hughes head stone in the small town of Shakespeare NM.
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