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Re: Monterrey/Skeleton Canyon treasure
February 12, 1998 at 11:18:33

In Reply to: Re: Monterrey/Skeleton Canyon treasure
posted by Kim Fenn on February 11, 1998 at 23:08:06

Kim,

When I was in Tombstone in 1986, I stumbled across Billy Ground's grave at Boot Hill Cemetery. Both Grounds and Zwing Hunt were fingered in the murder of a newspaper editor there, they fled east with a posse in pursuit, were cornered in a barn. Grounds took a shotgun blast to the face, while Hunt was wounded in the abdomen. According to stories, Hunt made a second escape with the aid of his brother, but got as far as the western side of the Chiricahuas before dying of his wounds. At a place called Hunt Canyon, there are some graves at the entrance (I have not physically checked them out), and I believe that Zwing Hunt is in one of them. One story I did read had Grounds send a letter to his mother in San Antonio, telling her how he had come by $90,000 "honestly", but of course, he had not lived long enough to to return to Texas to live "honestly". The same story also says that the incident took place in 1892, about ten years after the fact, so I have to take it with a grain of salt. I also heard about some of the treasure being found, such as scattered coins and a box of silver bars, all within Skeleton Canyon, and some scattered gold coins along the Jack Wood Pass in the southeast Chiricahuas. But, unfortunately, I have to regard it as heresay until I get something outside of the traditional story level that would make it a concrete fact.

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