Spanish & KGC in the ozark mountains.

[orangeman]

I haven't seen or heard of any historical records of the Spanish doing any thing in the Ozarks. I've heard lots of stories from the old timers about abandoned silver mines. I've also heard lots of stories of civil war treasures hid in the mountains. I was just curious if any one has seen our heard of who was operating in the Ozarks.

 

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[dsty]

French, Civil War, Out Laws, Spanish, and others all have left their foot prints in the Ozarks in Carvings in Stone, what County / City near-by- River's, Creeks, streams, are you close to. The Ozark's cover a pretty size area, Missouri ? Arkansas ?.

 

[orangeman]

Searcy county arkansas. Found stuff all over bear creek. Red river. Archie creek and the Illinois bayou. Some is Indian. Some might be spanish. And others I have no clue.

 

[civil_war22]

I've heard a lot about the Spanish in Arkansas. Hell Hernando de Soto was in Calion Arkansas. My ex wife grandma has a man made cave on her property near Hurricane Creek in Boston mountains were Spanish was supposed to have mined. It's in a book I think it might have been a Phillip Steele book about the Ozarks

 

[orangeman]

Read about deSoto going through Jackson port and down around crystal hill area. They claim he died in south arkansas some where. Found several caves that look like they where dug out into sand stone bluffs.

 

[orangeman]

Heard about the spanish being at mt. Petit Jean and east of Dardanelle.

 

[orangeman]

I've heard stories of the Spanish mining silver. There was one found in St Joe. It still had the tools in it. It was also a hard rock mine.

 

[orangeman]

. I believe this carving has been added to by different people over the long years.

 

[orangeman]

. I think this carving was not added to. I have found more from guess work and lots of walking and looking.

 

[orangeman]

. This one I found in a place that looked like there was kind of digging going on at one time. The place there's was some digging is about 30 yards from this up a steep hill a short ways.

 

[dsty]

I would recommend Spanish, Then to decide, Royal Trails, Settlers Square League, Vaults, Settlements, places of worship. Area that would be useful and productive would be about 25 square miles or more with waterways, get some USGS maps that show large areas in the area you decide to explore and some small ones that show more detail. What you have posted seems to be Trails and settlements with perhaps a Royal Trail going thru it,( the long cross going thru it shows), perhaps going thru an Indian Village, that could be French also

 

[orangeman]

. Found these by a hunch of a guess off of the carving on post 9.

 

[orangeman]

I know the area very well for miles and miles. I grew up here and run the bluffs and fished the river. I know just about every one every direction for miles. It's remote not many outsiders. It's near the head of a major water way the ancient used all the time. There's a field next to the river that was a large Indian community in the day. You can still find the mill stones arrow heads every where you look when it's plowed. The carving is 2 miles or so from that community. There was a more recent community down the river from the carvings about 11/2 miles away. It was around in the 1800s. And died in the 30s-40s when they shut down the rail road that went up here. The funny thing about the community is that there's old stores, school, and lots of homes. But no cemitary.

 

[orangeman]

There's more legends and old stories about the Spanish, Indians, civil war, and out laws than I can even count. There are many many mason lodges here. They're may be some of they're stuff around here to. I found a news paper article from Clinton way back in the fiftys or so some found some spanish armor on the side of a mountain laying in the woods. That was up Archie creek. Over the mountain from where I'm at.

 

[orangeman]

There's a story that a couple of the old folks used to tell me when I was a kid. They told about the Spanish being in there mining using the local Indians to do the work. The Indians rose up against them drove the Spanish into a cave and sealed it and concealed where the opening had been.

 

[Pointman]

Volumes have been written about Spanish silver in the Ozarks. Also, lots of Spanish silver stories all over Arkansas--White river etc., I've not done much exploring, but I grew up listening to tails and I have searched a few caves in the Ozarks when I was a teenager that the Spanish supposedly explored.

J. C. Jameson books tell a ton of stories about this, but they do lack some details.

 

[austin]

Lot of Spanish legends, but little or no proof. Had to do with official permission to explore or mine. There just are no records in the archives, except for the DeSoto expedition. He died along the Mississippi and was buried there. Expedition did continue west, but exact location is unknown. Could have been your areas. Understand, there are Spanish legends across Texas and the west, as well as the Ozarks. But proof is needed...

 

[civil_war22]

Legends and tales is all I have heard. No factual proof as of yet.

 

[orangeman]

That's what I've looked for was some thing historical on them in this area. I've seen where deSoto was supposed to have gone. And read what the Indians told him abut these mountains being haunted. There was some accounts of them eat of Dardanelle mining gold. And mount petit Jean.

 

[civil_war22]

I've heard of the Indian settlement at Dardanelle and petit Jean. I believe there is a historical sign by road before you cross Dardanelle that speaks of it