Hidden Treasures

By Robert F. (Bob) Turpin

These stories originally appeared in the Summer, 1974 edition of Treasure Hunt published by author Robert F. (Bob) Turpin. Over the years, because of popular demand and many requests, Turpin has decided to bring some of these stories to you now as e-books, with only minor editing changes. Read about hidden treasures consisting of gold bullion believed to be well over $150,000.00 buried around Eldorado, Oklahoma; and relics, buried money, and supplies believed to be stashed around Inola, Oklahoma. Then there’s The Lacy Mouse pot-of-gold-treasure; Joe Payne’s Silver Streak treasure in Preu, Okla., the Aztek gold-bars Treasure; and a list of some of Oklahoma’s better-known ghost towns, all in this exciting book about Hidden Treasures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781304574978

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Hidden Treasures

Hidden Treasures

Copyright

© 2013 by Bob Turpin – All Rights Reserved

ISBN: 978-1-304-57497-8

No part of this book may be copied or reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages for review purposes.

Dedication

To the folks who like to read about the Old West.

Eldorado’s Spanish Gold

In the gypsum hills near Eldorado, Oklahoma, lies buried a vast fortune in gold bullion. The general worth of this treasure is conceded to be well over $150,000.

Eldorado, located in the southwest corner of the state, is rich in history and legends. It was in this same vicinity that Jack Abernathy staged the celebrated wolf hunt for Teddy Roosevelt. It is also believed to be the richest area in Oklahoma for its prehistoric findings.

Information for this story goes back to 1932 and George Reeves who stoutly believes there are several large treasures buried around Eldorado.

Reeves lived seven or eight miles east of Eldorado. For nineteen years, he searched for the elusive gold. While gathering mesquite firewood along the Boggy Brakes and Boggy Creek, his mind was always on buried treasure. He claimed to have found several markers along the low mesa. Other signs were carved beneath flat, round rocks strewn across the arid prairie. He ran lines between some of these markers which crisscrossed in a perplexing maze. Even an accomplished treasure hunter, such as himself, could not draw a definite conclusion.

Other treasure hunters like him passed up these clues for many years. To the inexperienced eye the rocks seemed to be placed in their positions only by chance.

"These old Mexicans were smart old codgers' Reeves stated. To prove his point he indicated eight different markers in one forty acre field, each of which seemed to direct the searcher to still a different marker. No one as yet has been able to decipher the meaning of the markers. According to Reeves one plot of peculiarly arranged boulders formed two semicircles