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Hey Marc,
Here are a few choice stories from SoCal that have been around for a long time:
1. Pegleg Smith's black coated gold nuggets
2. Mexican Bandits who went up and down California raiding towns, missions, and the like, plundering all the wealth they came across. Making a bad decision, they attacked a tribe of local Indians, killing many braves and taking some women. When the rest of the tribe returned they set out after the Mexicans and caught them in the area of the confluence of Carrizo Wash and San Felipe Creek in the Anza-Borrego Desert near the Anza Pass. At first, the Indians left the "10 Oxcarts of loot" right there where it lay. Later the chief took some trusty braves and hid the gold in a cave in the mountains near that area.
I thought this story was just that until about two years ago, an off-roader who fell off his vehicle in that area cut his arm on a little gold box that he found containing a gold and ruby crucifix!
3. The story that is backed up by reports in the royal archives in Madrid about the Spanish Galleon that is somewhere under the dunes between Yuma, AZ. and Borrego Springs. These dunes cross highway 8. This Spanish Galleon contains hundreds of baskets of pearls and a small chest of gold.
Enjoy-Mike
Here are a few choice stories from SoCal that have been around for a long time:
1. Pegleg Smith's black coated gold nuggets
2. Mexican Bandits who went up and down California raiding towns, missions, and the like, plundering all the wealth they came across. Making a bad decision, they attacked a tribe of local Indians, killing many braves and taking some women. When the rest of the tribe returned they set out after the Mexicans and caught them in the area of the confluence of Carrizo Wash and San Felipe Creek in the Anza-Borrego Desert near the Anza Pass. At first, the Indians left the "10 Oxcarts of loot" right there where it lay. Later the chief took some trusty braves and hid the gold in a cave in the mountains near that area.
I thought this story was just that until about two years ago, an off-roader who fell off his vehicle in that area cut his arm on a little gold box that he found containing a gold and ruby crucifix!
3. The story that is backed up by reports in the royal archives in Madrid about the Spanish Galleon that is somewhere under the dunes between Yuma, AZ. and Borrego Springs. These dunes cross highway 8. This Spanish Galleon contains hundreds of baskets of pearls and a small chest of gold.
Enjoy-Mike