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Good read. I think expedition unknown did a bit on the stash house.The legend of Pancho Villa's hidden treasure lives on
A century after his death, treasure hunters are still searching for the revolutionary general's rumored multi-million dollar stash.
Victorio peak?
No. Caballos maybe, but not VP. Personally, I'd favor Tres Hermanas. I'll try to find the source of this rumor, but as I said above, the whole thing is sketchy. Holmdahl, by the way, is quite an interesting figure and he's the only reason I paid any attention to this tale.
Wiki offers a decent and lengthy synopsis of his life, mostly lifted from a biography, Soldier of Fortune.
Not so much slipping off topic, but a good reminder to readers that serious snooping about treasure legends is vastly improved when you can reduce the degrees of separation between the actual events and the teller of the story.Hello Bookaroo.
Zebina Nathaniel Streeter -- aka Johnatan Casimiro Streeter, aka The White Apache was an interesting character. I did not know he had a manuscript? Bancroft Library is full of historical treasures. the repercussions for that earthquake and fire in 1906 are still being felt today 117 years on. So much early records and documentation was lost. I cannot count thew times i cursed that earthquake and fire. So many historical records lost.
Many years ago in 1986 I met a retired Cambridge professor in Newton Abbot in Devon UK. Wrote a book Treasure trove. Fascinating fellow. He wrote a book called treasure trove in which he discused various treasure legends. He was fascinated by them. Although many such stories are basic versions and some had unintentional errors as he was more interested in historical references of such stories.
Strange enough he in his book mentions Casimiro Streeter with group of Apaches When they was on a raiding party north east of Cananea, was looking down into canyon where he saw a ruined church tower and church. And he was told by his fellow Apaches that was Tayopa. I never knew or asked at the time where he got the reference from?
When you mentioned his name that twigged in the old black birdies brain.
But Alas that is slipping off topic a little as found some documents with Emil Holmdahl search of buried treasure in Mexico.
Crow
Is it fact based or more of the 2nd 3rd hand scuttle butt stuff?
Hello Bookaroo.
Zebina Nathaniel Streeter -- aka Johnatan Casimiro Streeter, aka The White Apache was an interesting character. I did not know he had a manuscript? Bancroft Library is full of historical treasures. the repercussions for that earthquake and fire in 1906 are still being felt today 117 years on. So much early records and documentation was lost. I cannot count thew times i cursed that earthquake and fire. So many historical records lost.
Many years ago in 1986 I met a retired Cambridge professor in Newton Abbot in Devon UK. Wrote a book Treasure trove. Fascinating fellow. He wrote a book called treasure trove in which he discused various treasure legends. He was fascinated by them. Although many such stories are basic versions and some had unintentional errors as he was more interested in historical references of such stories.
Strange enough he in his book mentions Casimiro Streeter with group of Apaches When they was on a raiding party north east of Cananea, was looking down into canyon where he saw a ruined church tower and church. And he was told by his fellow Apaches that was Tayopa. I never knew or asked at the time where he got the reference from?
When you mentioned his name that twigged in the old black birdies brain.
But Alas that is slipping off topic a little as found some documents with Emil Holmdahl search of buried treasure in Mexico.
Crow
There are obviously good odds that the collection was lost, but depending on where the library was located and who had access to it, maybe not 100%. The fire burned for days, and if the collection was considered important enough to save, possibly someone did.
