A Guide to Treasure in Oklahoma, Volume 2

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Most people laugh when you tell them you are a treasure hunter - they just don't believe that there could possibly be treasure out there to find. I could Mention Mel Fisher and his finding of the Atocha and bringing to the surface the large amount of relics and actual treasure found within the rotted boards of that 1500's ship that sunk. There have been more found this year of 1987 and one has been the Titanic. There will be many relics brought to the surface when they are through. A Heinrich Schliermann, an internationally famous German Archaeologist, decided that Homer's "Illiad" and "Odessey" were thought to be pure myths, but he made up his mind that in some of the poems by Homer were instructions to the legendary Troy. So he deciphered them and he found Troy. At Hissarlick, Turkey in 1876 he found Troy and turned up a fortune in gold, silver and ivory. According to historians in the books on the history of Oklahoma, they say that the Spanish Conquistadores visited Oklahoma in 1541. It was during that year that Coronado, while searching for the Seven Cities of Cibola passed through Oklahoma, and ended up in eastern Kansas. His search was fruitless. Hernando De Soto headed an expedition that started at Tampa Bay, Florida, and went through Georgia, Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama and into the Grand River Valley in Oklahoma.