Idaho Treasure Hunters

I am no amateur when it comes to research, but the following story which took place in the Boise county area has me baffled. I have been unable to find any information whatsoever to back up the story so thought I would post it here in hopes that someone may have an interest in pursuing this endeavor with me. This story is taken from "A Guide To Treasure In Idaho" by H. Glenn Carson. He published this and many other books about treasure hunting and metal detecting but his writing style leaves a little to be desired with poor punctuation, run-on sentences and spelling. As long as you can get past the grammatical errors the information in the book is interesting. Many of his books are included in the drawing I am holding this month. Here is the story exactly as written: "Straight north from today's Arrowrock Dam three outlaws held up a stagecoach. Not an unusual event in those rowdy days, but they took $90,000 in gold coins and road safely away. This took place close to where Grimes and Moore creek come together. The stage guard was angry and unable to let the matter drop. He hurried up and over a ridge, knowing the trail they took doubled back that way. He hoped to ambush them. Sure enough, he got to a point above the trail before they arrived, and he shot the three of them before they could shoot back. The $90,000 in gold coins was not on the bodies. Somewhere, in a very short distance from the site of the robbery (near the stream confluence, where the trail loops back to a point just across the ridge from the holdup site) the robbers buried their loot. The stage guard could not find it. Law authorities failed to find it. Many others have looked and failed to find it." I did look at an aerial photograph of the area, and where the two creeks meet at Idaho 21 and Centerville road is directly north from Arrowrock Dam. Other than that I cannot verify any of the information. If anyone has anything to share about this story please comment, and don't forget to enter the drawing to win two books this month.

Enter to win your choice of two ebooks on metal detecting and treasure hunting. This drawing will run monthly starting May 1. The winner will be able to choose from the following ebooks:

A Guide To Treasure In Arizona
A Guide To Treasure In Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi
A Guide To Treasure In California
A Guide To Treasure In Colorado
A Guide To Treasure In Idaho
A Guide To Treasure In Illinois And Indiana
A Guide To Treasure In Kentucky
A Guide To Treasure In Michigan And Ohio
A Guide To Treasure In Missouri
A Guide To Treasure in Montana – Wyoming
A Guide To Treasure In Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota
A Guide To Treasure In Nevada
A Guide To Treasure In New Mexico
A Guide To Treasure In Oklahoma – Volume 1
A Guide To Treasure In Oklahoma – Volume 2
A Guide To Treasure In Oklahoma – Volume 3
A Guide To Treasure In Pennsylvania
A Guide To Treasure In Tennessee
A Guide To Treasure In Texas
A Guide To Treasure In Utah
A Guide To Treasure In Virginia And West Virginia
A New Guide To Treasure Hunting
Advanced Prospecting And Detecting For Hardrock Gold
Arizona Treasure Stories – Volume 1 – Anthology
Atlas Of Colorado Ghost Towns
Cache Hunting
Cache Hunting II
California Treasure Stories – Volume 1 – Anthology
Coinshooting – How And Where To Do It
Coinshooting II Digging Deeper Coins
Colorado Placers And Placering
Colorado Treasure Stories – Volume 1 – Anthology
Florida Treasure Stories – Volume 1 – Anthology
Gold – ABC’S Of Panning
Gold – Volume 1 – Anthology
Gold Is Where You Find It
Hedge Yourself Against Disaster
Hidden Riches
How To Find And Get Permission To Hunt Ghost Towns
How To Find Lost Treasure
Hunting The Ghost Towns
New England Treasure Stories – Volume 1 – Anthology
New Mexico Treasure Stories – Volume 1 – Anthology
Oklahoma Treasure Stories – Volume 1 – Anthology
Oklahoma Treasure Stories – Volume 2 – Anthology
One Hundred Treasure Tales
One Hundred Treasure Tales – Volume 2
One Hundred Treasure Tales – Volume 3
Pilar La Dura
Pilar La Dura II
Relic Hunting Volume I
Some Paths To Sudden Wealth
Successful Treasure Hunter’s Guide
Texas Treasure Stories – Volume I – Anthology
The Extraction Of Free Gold
The Successful Treasure Hunter’s Essential Dowsing Manual
The Successful Treasure Hunter’s Secret Manual – Discovering Treasure Auras In The Digital Age
Treasure Hunters Logbook
Treasure Hunting – A Modern Search For Adventure
Treasure Hunting With Metal Detectors
Underwater Treasure Stories – Volume 1
Underwater Treasure Stories – Volume 2

To enter click here and fill out the entry form. No need to pick your books now. The winner will be contacted and allowed to choose at that time. I may have more books available to choose from by the end of the month.

I appreciate those who have entered the drawing to win the ebook, "The Successful Treasure Hunter's Secret Manual – Discovering Treasure Auras In The Digital Age." Don't forget you can enter once a day. There are only nine entrants who have only entered one time so far which means there is a 1 in 9 chance that one of the current entrants will win the drawing. Don't miss out on an opportunity to win a great book! Enter Here!

I will be offering a chance to win one of several items in a drawing starting May 1st while the current drawing is still going so stay tuned.

Once a month starting May 1st I will be posting a Idaho lost treasure story from the book, "A Guide To Treasure In Idaho" written by H. Glen Carson. I will offer this book in ebook form along with many others to choose from in upcoming drawings. I hope that readers will post comments on the stories and any information they have about the particular treasure, especially if they have first hand information that the treasure has been located. If anyone is interested in a particular lost treasure in Idaho please comment with information you have and I will see what I can find for you.

I purchased the ebook version of “The Successful Treasure Hunter’s Secret Manual – Discovering Treasure Auras In The Digital Age” for the sole purpose of giving it away this month to a lucky winner. This ebook sells for $19.97 but you can get it for free! All you have to do to enter is click on the link below to enter the drawing. You may only enter once a day per email address. All duplicate entries will be discarded. This month’s drawing will run from the time of this posting until 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time on May 9, 2009.

If this month’s drawing gains enough interest I will offer the same ebook next month or another title related to treasure hunting and metal detecting. If I offer the same book next month that I am giving away now I will purchase another copy to make sure the author get’s the monetary credit he deserves for his time and effort in making this book available.

I hope that prizes will get bigger and better if this experiment is a success.

The full rules for this drawing are posted on the entry page. Enter here!

Good luck!

The other day my wife reminded me that I had an antique pewter cup that I found metal detecting 24 years ago that I have absolutely no idea of it’s origin. She thought that I should post it on this blog to see if my readers might have any information. It is very doubtful that it is worth much, but I would mostly like to know how old it might be, who made it, where it was made, etc.

When I found the cup I was metal detecting in a shallow section of the Mississinewa river in Marion, Indiana after the corp of engineers had opened the nearby floodgates to the dam. It was about five feet from shore under about a foot of mud.

When the flood gates are opened there are several places along the river bank where you can walk on dry land halfway across. It is prime hunting ground for metal detecting and bottle collecting during this time. I have found many old coins detecting in these areas as well as tons of fishing sinkers which I melted down to make my own.

Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks for visiting, and don’t forget to subscribe!