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Arizona :
Canyon Station is located at the foothills of the Cerbat Mountains near Kingman. It was the site of a stage station near the mouth of the narrow canyon, through which the road twisted up the Cerbats before descending to Mineral Park. All that is left of Canyon Station today is the diminishing foundations of well-aged structures and a weed infested road leading to them.
Tradition claims that a robbery took place near the Canyon Station in October of 1873. A man named Macallum (McAllen) and his partner received information from an unnamed source that a shipment of government funds, $72,000 worth, in gold coins was in route to Fort Mohave from Prescott. The two men made careful plans to rob the stagecoach of its precious contents. With his partner standing guard Macallum stopped the stagecoach, demanded the strongbox and sent the coach on its way. The coach traveled a short distance and soon a posse was formed to pursue the two bandits.
Meanwhile the robbers had no chance of carrying their unwieldy prize with them any extended distance, so they decided to bury the strongbox containing the loot. It wasn't long before the sheriff's posse caught up with them killing Macallum’s partner. Macallum was sent to the Yuma Territorial Prison for an undetermined sentence. He did not reveal the location of the hidden money, hoping to enjoy the loot after serving his prison term. While in prison Macallum became well acquainted with another inmate. Macallum became very ill and before his death he relayed information regarding the robbery to the inmate.
It is believed that this inmate returned to Canyon Station and talked to Andy Goodwill, who at the time was living in the Canyon Station building and cultivated a fine orchard and garden there. Goodwill reported that he had no objection and the man continued the search for the money, staying in the area for a few days. At the time of his departure, the man told Goodwill that the place had changed and he couldn't find any marker described by the old inmate. Discouraged after his extensive search, the man left to no avail.
What makes this story more creditable is the fact that a few years later Nelle Clack, who owned Clacks Canyon at the time, told of a hideout she believed the robbers used. It was a cave formed by two large boulders. There Nelle Clack found a few personal belongings left by persons who had been living there for a short period of time. It was an ideal spot for observing the movements of people and wagons at the station.
California:
Joaquín Murieta and his gang were often known to hide their stolen loot in the area of their robberies. On one occasion Murieta and his right-hand man, Manual Garcia, known as "Three-Fingered Jack, robbed a stagecoach along the Feather River. The strongbox was said to have contained some 250 pounds of gold nuggets worth $140,000 at the time. Allegedly, the pair buried the strongbox in a on the banks of the Feather River in a canyon a few miles south of Paradise, (present Butte County). According to Wells Fargo officials, the stolen gold has never been recovered.
Another cache of Joaquín Murieta, or one of them, anyway, is said to lie between Susanville and Freedonyer Pass near today's Highway 36
Michigan
Legend has it that on Poverty Island in Lake Michigan, a schooner was transporting 5 chests of gold that were to be used by the Americans in their fight against the English. The 60-foot schooner wrecked off the island which is located East of Wisconsin. The chests could be worth 400 million dollars! Many people have made attempts to find them, but none have been successful.
New York
A legend in Whitehall, NY tells of a man named Robert Gordon who in 1775 left his home in New York to go to Canada to avoid the war. He put his valuables into a strongbox and while on his journey to Canada, he dropped it on the West shore of the Haven in the marshes. He noted the location of his strongbox, but he never returned. 159 years later in 1934, a person was working at clearing up a swamp. A metal box was brought up, balanced on the debris and then fell back into the water. Many people have tried to relocate the box, but none have been successful!
Black Hills
In the fall of 1878, the Monitor was held up at a stage stop called Canyon Springs about 37 miles south of Deadwood. According to accounts at the time, five gunmen took over the stage stop and waited for the coach to arrive. Once the stage arrived a gunfight erupted and one of the guards was seriously wounded by a high calibre rifle bullet. Another guard inside the coach was wounded and a third killed when he tried to run off.
The gang took the stage into the woods where they worked for two hours to open the strongbox and eventually made off with $3,500 in currency, $500 in diamonds, hundreds of dollars worth of jewelry and 700 pounds of gold dust, nuggets and bullion. The gold ingots were loaded onto a two-wheeled wagon and the tracks set off to the East through the Black Hills following various canyons and stream beds.
As the news of the holdup (and a reward from Homestake Mine) spread throughout Dakota and Wyoming several posses formed up and rode in every direction based on rumors of where the outlaws had been seen. As a result, within six weeks, the stageline let it be known that 60 percent of the loot had been recovered. But the wagon and two big ingots were still missing
If you want to look for the gold here are some clues: US Highway 85 leaves Deadwood, SD, heading southwest winding its way through Cheyenne Crossing and then into Wyoming. Highway 85 then turns south and heads straight to Cheyenne following, for the most part, the old stage road, passing close to Jenny Stockade near Newcastle and continuing south to Lusk, the home of the famed Stagecoach Museum. The treasure is said to be buried somewhere near the old Canyon Springs Stage Station. Canyon Springs was a relay station located in Beaver Canyon about 37 miles south of Deadwood. Of course the gold could be anywhere between there and, say, Buffalo Gap.
Canyon Station is located at the foothills of the Cerbat Mountains near Kingman. It was the site of a stage station near the mouth of the narrow canyon, through which the road twisted up the Cerbats before descending to Mineral Park. All that is left of Canyon Station today is the diminishing foundations of well-aged structures and a weed infested road leading to them.
Tradition claims that a robbery took place near the Canyon Station in October of 1873. A man named Macallum (McAllen) and his partner received information from an unnamed source that a shipment of government funds, $72,000 worth, in gold coins was in route to Fort Mohave from Prescott. The two men made careful plans to rob the stagecoach of its precious contents. With his partner standing guard Macallum stopped the stagecoach, demanded the strongbox and sent the coach on its way. The coach traveled a short distance and soon a posse was formed to pursue the two bandits.
Meanwhile the robbers had no chance of carrying their unwieldy prize with them any extended distance, so they decided to bury the strongbox containing the loot. It wasn't long before the sheriff's posse caught up with them killing Macallum’s partner. Macallum was sent to the Yuma Territorial Prison for an undetermined sentence. He did not reveal the location of the hidden money, hoping to enjoy the loot after serving his prison term. While in prison Macallum became well acquainted with another inmate. Macallum became very ill and before his death he relayed information regarding the robbery to the inmate.
It is believed that this inmate returned to Canyon Station and talked to Andy Goodwill, who at the time was living in the Canyon Station building and cultivated a fine orchard and garden there. Goodwill reported that he had no objection and the man continued the search for the money, staying in the area for a few days. At the time of his departure, the man told Goodwill that the place had changed and he couldn't find any marker described by the old inmate. Discouraged after his extensive search, the man left to no avail.
What makes this story more creditable is the fact that a few years later Nelle Clack, who owned Clacks Canyon at the time, told of a hideout she believed the robbers used. It was a cave formed by two large boulders. There Nelle Clack found a few personal belongings left by persons who had been living there for a short period of time. It was an ideal spot for observing the movements of people and wagons at the station.
California:
Joaquín Murieta and his gang were often known to hide their stolen loot in the area of their robberies. On one occasion Murieta and his right-hand man, Manual Garcia, known as "Three-Fingered Jack, robbed a stagecoach along the Feather River. The strongbox was said to have contained some 250 pounds of gold nuggets worth $140,000 at the time. Allegedly, the pair buried the strongbox in a on the banks of the Feather River in a canyon a few miles south of Paradise, (present Butte County). According to Wells Fargo officials, the stolen gold has never been recovered.
Another cache of Joaquín Murieta, or one of them, anyway, is said to lie between Susanville and Freedonyer Pass near today's Highway 36
Michigan
Legend has it that on Poverty Island in Lake Michigan, a schooner was transporting 5 chests of gold that were to be used by the Americans in their fight against the English. The 60-foot schooner wrecked off the island which is located East of Wisconsin. The chests could be worth 400 million dollars! Many people have made attempts to find them, but none have been successful.
New York
A legend in Whitehall, NY tells of a man named Robert Gordon who in 1775 left his home in New York to go to Canada to avoid the war. He put his valuables into a strongbox and while on his journey to Canada, he dropped it on the West shore of the Haven in the marshes. He noted the location of his strongbox, but he never returned. 159 years later in 1934, a person was working at clearing up a swamp. A metal box was brought up, balanced on the debris and then fell back into the water. Many people have tried to relocate the box, but none have been successful!
Black Hills
In the fall of 1878, the Monitor was held up at a stage stop called Canyon Springs about 37 miles south of Deadwood. According to accounts at the time, five gunmen took over the stage stop and waited for the coach to arrive. Once the stage arrived a gunfight erupted and one of the guards was seriously wounded by a high calibre rifle bullet. Another guard inside the coach was wounded and a third killed when he tried to run off.
The gang took the stage into the woods where they worked for two hours to open the strongbox and eventually made off with $3,500 in currency, $500 in diamonds, hundreds of dollars worth of jewelry and 700 pounds of gold dust, nuggets and bullion. The gold ingots were loaded onto a two-wheeled wagon and the tracks set off to the East through the Black Hills following various canyons and stream beds.
As the news of the holdup (and a reward from Homestake Mine) spread throughout Dakota and Wyoming several posses formed up and rode in every direction based on rumors of where the outlaws had been seen. As a result, within six weeks, the stageline let it be known that 60 percent of the loot had been recovered. But the wagon and two big ingots were still missing
If you want to look for the gold here are some clues: US Highway 85 leaves Deadwood, SD, heading southwest winding its way through Cheyenne Crossing and then into Wyoming. Highway 85 then turns south and heads straight to Cheyenne following, for the most part, the old stage road, passing close to Jenny Stockade near Newcastle and continuing south to Lusk, the home of the famed Stagecoach Museum. The treasure is said to be buried somewhere near the old Canyon Springs Stage Station. Canyon Springs was a relay station located in Beaver Canyon about 37 miles south of Deadwood. Of course the gold could be anywhere between there and, say, Buffalo Gap.
