Table of Content

5              Colorado Man Gets ‘Strung Up’ for a Good Cause                 By Celine Buffett                 Over 60 years of metal detecting finds.    7             Missing Gold Caches in Colorado                 By Michael Paul Henson                 Lost gold and outlaw caches.                 12           Tales of Robbery Loot                 By Reginald G. Sniff Hidden loot from a stagecoach robbery or train holdup near Pueblo, Colorado?     14           Lost Cache of Rare Lesher Dollars                 By Ken Weinman Lost cache of rare Lesher dollars in the town of Victor, Colorado.                 17           Has Part of the Reynold’s Loot Been Found?                 By G. Christopher $45,000 is still waiting to be found somewhere near Deer Creek.                 19           “Escape! I’m Kilt!”  — The Espinosa Gang’s Booty                 By Billy Taggert $60,000 in gold stolen from the payroll wagon headed for Fort Garland, Colorado.   25           Colorado Salida Gold                 By Tom Vance This modern-day treasure tale occurred sometime between the years 1938 and 1940.   28           The Legend of Snow Blind Gulch                 By Anthony J. Pallante                 Prospectors lost gold.                 32           Grand Lake’s Lost Gold Cache                 By John K. Manwin Gold dust and nuggets buried in a heavy Dutch oven, at the base of a huge gray boulder along the eastern shore of the big lake.                 36           Colorado Treasures                 By Michael Paul Henson                 Lost caches in Colorado.   41           Lost Black Mountain Gold                 By John Howard A lost rich gold mine somewhere west of Fort Collins, Colorado.   43           Lost Stagecoach Loot at Conejos                 By Ken Weinman A lone bandit held up a stage­coach near the small town of Conejos.   47           Buried Gold and Silver in Colorado                 By Michael Paul Henson Buried gold and silver, train loot, robber’s cache and $40,000 in lost gold.                   51           Cave of the Golden Jesus — Legendary Lost Gold Mine                 By Joe Meis A legendary golden Jesus, which would have taken at least four men to carry. Its value would be priceless.   53           The Third Gravestone                 By Resti Concoles                 Buried $100,000 in gold.   57           Colorado Caches                 By Tom Vance                 Land of treasure, mystery and intrigue.                 60           Trapper Sam’s Lost Gold                 By Margaret Lewis Three types of gold — nuggets, dust and flakes.   63        Colorado — Crime on the Old Malta Road                 By Anthony J. Pallante                 Robbery and murder in Colorado.                 67           John Swift’s Silver Bar Cache                 By Don Viles Possibly millions in silver bars and counterfeit coins.   77           Ghost Riders                 By Dean Adams The Colorado stagecoach stop at Spruce Lodge reveals more treasures.   79           A Dagger Marks the Spot                 By Trinidad Concoles                 $63,000 in gold coins.                                                                                 83           $35,000 Gold Bar Booty                 By Bill Kelly Two masked men robbed the passengers of Union Pacific Train.           87           Colorado’s X-File Cases                 By Anthony M. Belli Fact or fiction — reports of dozens of lost mines, buried treasures, day and night time sightings of UFO’s.                 92           A Skeptic No More — Gold Bars at Treasure Mountain                 By Becky Martin Huge caches of gold ingots lay hidden in deep shafts where Ledoux stacked them more than 200 years ago.                 98           The Lost Gold Cache of La Poudre Canyon                 By B. G. Revis People still search for this old trail, and tales are told that someone has seen the mine or parts of the trail.   102       Outlaw Nest Egg — One Nasty Surprise!                 By Shirley Jeanne Garrett $10,000 payroll of Posser, Conkling & Co., mostly in silver and gold coins wrapped in canvas sacks.