The “Far West” Riverboat Story

$375,000 in gold bars were removed from the riverboat, “Far West”, and buried less than a half mile above Yellowstone River’s junction with the Big Horn River, about 500 yards inland at the foot of the nearest hill. When the party returned to recover...

Spanish Treasure in Polk County

Noble Hill is located on State 13, about 13 miles north of Springfield, and almost on the Polk-Green County line. There has long been a story known locally of a Spanish treasure buried in this area but details are scant. From 1940 until 1946 a man named Mullen owned...

Spanish Silver Mines

Over two hundred years ago seven Spaniards who were working a silver mine, after crudely smelting and stamping it, secreted their vast wealth in a cave about a mile from the smelters. After a while, they began fighting among themselves and finally there was only one...

Civil War Gold in Bates County

Sometime during the Civil War a band of guerrillas supposedly robbed a bank and looted a small unnamed town in the vicinity of Adrian, Missouri. The raiders, with $90,000 in gold were persued by a party of Union soldiers. They halted only long enough to bury the three...