Immense Fortune Buried in Brown County

[jeff of pa]

Kansas City journal. (Kansas City, Mo.), 30 Dec. 1897.





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[Texas Jay]

Thanks for posting this about my home county, Jeff. I've never heard that specific story before but I have researched everything I could find about the Spanish in Brown County. The only solid information I got was that a time or two a Spanish officer named Flores, from a San Antonio fort, chased a band of Lipan Apaches into this county in the early 1700s in an effort to retrieve some captives and stolen horses. I have heard stories that suggest the Spanish may have had a larger presence in this county than my information told me about. One is that a friend of mine found a small cannon ball made of silver (he had it tested) when he was young man. He was using a metal detector in a house yard, less than a mile from my house, while his dad was working on the house when he discovered it. Also, my late father told me of a discovery of Spanish armor in a cave in a Brown County mountain during the 1930s but I've been unable to learn any more details about that.
~Texas Jay