Lost Adam's reply to all.....
October 10, 1999 at 08:49:03
It been brought to my attention by several members of GCR that another discussion on the Lost Adam's was being waged on this forum and that my name was mentioned in connection with the story.
About a year ago I replied to another message concerning this story,and explained what Golden Circle Research's team efforts have revealed on it.
If memory serves me correctly some of those who visit this forum thought my reply amusing and the ramblings of some nut. True I didn't reveal all GCR has learned on the subject and won't now either, but I would like to help some of you understand the reason this story is important as a treasure lead but not but is not exactly true.
The KGC used hundreds of stories similar to the Lost Adam's Tale to record the locations of treasure depositories throughout North America. These stories are fictional accounts of real situations and events, but are presented so that anyone not a member of the organization would take them literly. The facts in the stories are given as riddles or in forms of code. It is my belief that The Lost Adam's story originates from a Secret Confederate Mission carried out in 1864 by Capt. Cole Younger of Quantrel's KGC "Missouri Knights Gallant". Some of the story is related in the autobiography of Cole Younger and some in correspondence between KGC members during the 1920's.
What apparently occurred is this: In about 1862 the Confederate Navy had contracted with English shipyards to build, for it, two ironclad warships. Due to the blockade of all Southern ports the ships were to be delivered to the Rebs on the West Coast. In May 1864 KGC Capt. Cole Younger and a Co. of about 300 Rebs were ordered West to CO in order to steal all the gold they could from the CO goldfield and also destroy the telegraph wires between the East and West.
After raiding several places and wagon trains in CO Cole and Co. headed south down the Rio Grande to El Paso. The Rebs may have been headed for Mexico with their spoils. Here, we must remember that the KGC and the Confederacy were already making contingency plans for what they would do after the war was over and those plans included Mexico. The KGC at that time had allied with Maximillian in Mexico. Before entering Mexico the Rebs were met at the Rio Grande by a KGC agent with new orders. (Notice that this turnaround could be the origin of the Horsehead Canyon Treasure story in Texas, if the Rebs had gold that needed to be dropped because of the change of orders) This is where the Adam's story and Cole Younger's become very similar. Cole and a KGC agent, he called Kennedy, with twenty men headed for the West Coast,with wagons, possibly, carrying gold to pay for the ships. Bear in mind now, that this is happening at excatly the same year and month, August 1864, that Adam's said his expedition began. Cole relates a fight with Apaches in almost the exact region where Adams and his boys had the Indian troubles, again, at about the same time.
The Indians so mauled the Rebs that the mission to the West was rerouted through Southern NM and Mexico and then by boat up the coast. Again this would put the Rebs at about the same place Brewer claimed to have arrived at after his fiasco. This goes on and on but maybe I have given you a reason to start looking at the Adam's story differently. Another point to ponder is that oral KGC waybills use code words to identify themselves as such. In both Adam's and Brewer's stories certain words are used that are highly symbolic in KGC lore. Also to explain why some of the Adam's Searchers continued to hunt this loot until their death--may be that they had some knowledge of KGC methods, and probably some of those who took up residence in the area where the loot may be, were probably KGC sentinels. At least their M. O. was very much KGC like.
Some background on John Brewer, b. 1848 Owsley Co. KY, was at odds with his family over his sentiments for the South. Did not serve in either Army, but left home during the war and later settled in the Four Corners area of CO and UT, living and acting very much like a KGC Sentinel guarding a depository. John married an Indian woman, not Ute, as the story goes, but Cherokee, so research shows. Do not confuse this John with his nephew John Brewer b. 1838 also in Owsley Co.
In the two accounts of the stories, recall these coincidences(?), Adam's met 20 prospectors, Cole had 20 men besides himself and Kennedy, Adams lost wagons to Indians, Cole lost at least one wagon to the Indians, Survivors of the fight from both Adam's group and Cole's showed up on the Rio Grande in NM. Near where Cole had began his mission! The Indian fight took place in Central Western NM not far from Ft. Wingate. The Ft. was in Yankee hands which is the reason most of the Rebs decided to pass it by. Adam's showed up at the Fort with a wild story which he had to tell as cover for the Reb operations. That with the one code word, that I'll repeat here,-zigzag canyon-or a lightning bolt like symbol, which has a definite KGC meaning,gives an asute researcher grounds to dig deeper into a KGC connection to the LA story.
I would appreciate research data relating to the above..
Incidently the is not edited and will likely contain topos and errors, it is written off the top of my head and dates may be a little off..
Oh one more thing, the story about the Adam's party finding the gold. Everyone knows you do not find gold nuggets laying on top of sand or even mixed with sand in a stream. The gold is found on the bottom under the sand, unless somehow there were traps that caught the gold but not the sand and gravel. The story has always sounded fishy to me. Think it over!
Regards,
O. I.
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