The BEALE PAPERS were a dime novel pamphlet published in 1885 about an alleged Beale Party perilous adventure treasure story about discovering gold and silver during a buffalo hunt in 1817 and the transporting to Bedford county the find, along with jewels that obtained by trade for silver in St Louis, and buried in a constructed vault.
This is all revealed in letters from Beale to Robert Morriss in Lynchburg and with ciphers contained in an a mysterious iron box that Beale left in the care of Morriss.
All of this is related in a hearsay manuscript by an "unknown author" that claims he was given this tale by Robert Morriss during the "2nd year of the Confederate War", worked on the 3 ciphers for 20 years, solving only one, before contacting Ward to copyright and publish the aforementioned manuscript.
Others have later created their own continued variations on this story, including the Hart Papers, Pauline Innis, and Claudine Fulton Ellis- Peter Viemeister also wrote a factual researched work on the Beale story and those behind the job print publication.
After 135 years after the publication of the BEALE PAPERS by Ward, NO OUTSIDE EVIDENCE HAS EVER FOUND THAT CAN PROVE THAT THE BEALE TREASURE ADVENTURE STORY EVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED OUTSIDE OF THE PAMPHLETS PAGES.
