California and the KGC

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Just watched a show on Alcatraz. It had a small piece on the island being used as a prison for the KGC in California during the Civil War. https://books.google.com/books?id=l...catraz + knights of the golden circle&f=false A interesting bit about this subject. I never believed that treasure tale about KGC in Arizona or California. After some reading I could see that it's possible. The Booth boys on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. You boys out west might take a close look. Might be a over looked cache.

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Well, it was called the NORTHWEST CONSPIRACY... maybe OAK (formally known as KGC) had stuff all over...
 

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Interesting! Asbury Harpending had a well-known plan to try to pirate a gold shipment. He claimed it was for the Confederacy, although in reality it probably wasn't. Like the stage robbery at Bullion Bend or the St. Albans bank robbery.

Harpending, of course, was a shadowy figure in The Great Diamond Hoax.

As for KGC plants, these yarns presume the primary purpose was to raise money but not to actually spend it on anything. A stretch, in my personal opinion. Where did all the gold come from? Over time the amounts supposed to have been hidden keep going up, but the roster of finds remains about the same.

Good luck to all,

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senior deacon:

Interesting! Asbury Harpending had a well-known plan to try to pirate a gold shipment. He claimed it was for the Confederacy, although in reality it probably wasn't. Like the stage robbery at Bullion Bend or the St. Albans bank robbery.

Harpending, of course, was a shadowy figure in The Great Diamond Hoax.

As for KGC plants, these yarns presume the primary purpose was to raise money but not to actually spend it on anything. A stretch, in my personal opinion. Where did all the gold come from? Over time the amounts supposed to have been hidden keep going up, but the roster of finds remains about the same.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo, CM

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If I was in California and I wanted to look for K.G.C. gold I would start here.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Gwin




https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5994


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Naw, all of that was much later. That is how California came in on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War was by the KGC. They had infiltrated California and took over all of the State, County and City Governments even the arsenals and treasury vaults before they succeeded from the Union.
 

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Has no one paid any attention to the "Lone Star" of Texas or the "Star and Bear" on the California Flag. All KGC. Bear was the call sign of the KGC only they spelled it RABE. The "Lone Star" is even used today for the wounded and killed in war. The "Gold Star" Families for the KIA and the "Red Star" families for the wounded. They are still out there.
 

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AND! They were both REPUBLICS... Virginia is a COMMONWEALTH.

And COMMONWEALTH means we are still under the rule of a King. Soon to be King Trump
 

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Naw, all of that was much later. That is how California came in on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War was by the KGC. They had infiltrated California and took over all of the State, County and City Governments even the arsenals and treasury vaults before they succeeded from the Union.

Walker arrived La Paz flying the Mexican flag. After about half hour the filibusters took their victims and rose the flag of the self-proclaimed Republic of Lower California. "Colonel" Walker appointed himself as President of the new republic with the follwing speech:

"The Republic of Lower California is declared free, sovereign, and independent quitting since now on of its alliance with Mexico" .

William Walker adopted as a constitution one similar to that in effect in Louisiana, USA, then an pro-slavery constitution.

Three days later, Walker moved to Cabo San Lucas, for he wished to establish there the headquarters of his new government, other historians say, he did because he knew Mexican troops went to La Paz to catch him. Anyway, he took prisoners Colonel Juan ClÃ*maco Rebolledo and Espinosa. Once in Cabo San Lucas (November 8), Walker moved again to Ensenada, (in the present-day State of Baja California Sur) (November 29).

Walker appointed Frederick Emory as his "Secretary of the Interior", and send him to San Diego, California, to get provisions and people to support the cause. In San Diego, Frederick lift a recruitment office under the new flag of the "Republic of Lower California". On December 4, Lieutenant Castillo Negrete and Antonio Melendres with 58 men came from Santo Tomás fighting Walker during eight days, however, both Melendres and Negrete retreated after suffering many deaths.

On January 21, 1854, Walker promulgated a decree, published in the San Diego Herald, on which the republic name was changed to Republic of Sonora with two constituent states: Sonora and Baja California.
1853-1854 William Walker invasion of Baja California and Sonora
 

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This "Almost-History" makes a lot more sense when you realise that Franklin Pierce and Senator Gwin were both brothers in the K.G.C. Take into consideration that "President" Pierce accepted William Walker as the President of Baja no questions asked. Also the fact that Julius Sterling Morton was selected for office by Lewis Cass in Michigan for President Franklin Pierce sight unseen and sent to Nebraska to meet Francis Burt the first Gov. of Nebraska Morton had a letter from Cass in his pocket to hand to get him in the door when he arrived....but the Radical Republicans had already killed him before Morton got there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Collins
 

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